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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
The Saudis were already deeply involved in Pakistan. They had sent Zia large sums of money to open religious schools catering to both impoverished Pakistanis and Afghan refugees. To ensure that these schools taught only the puritanical Wahhabi form of Islam and that students were not exposed to such corrupting subjects as history or science, they also sent hundreds of mullahs, Koran readers, and religious teachers.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
They led to the fall of leaders who embraced American ideals, and the imposition of others who detested everything Americans hold dear.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
Each of these four coups was launched against a government that was reasonably democratic {with the arguable exception of South Vietnam}, and each ultimately led to the installation of a repressive dictatorship.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
To all of this the CIA agreed. It subcontracted to Pakistan the job of directing the Afghan rebellion.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
Whatever doubts the Americans had about the wisdom of embracing Zia were overwhelmed by their determination to intensify the rebellion in Afghanistan.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
This upheaval came while the region was still recovering from the shock of the Islamic revolution in Iran, which radically reshaped the strategic map of the Middle East and Central Asia.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
Yet Haq was also an outspoken nationalist. His dream was that once the Taliban was overthrown, it would be replaced by a regime free of all outside influence."
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
As Allende was trying to withstand the American campaign, he also faced intense pressure from groups of workers and peasants whose revolutionary passion he had helped to awaken.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
We used to be the fucker," one of Anaconda's lawyers lamented. "Now we're the fuckee.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
He projected American power through regional allies like Iran, Zaire, and Indonesia, and turned a blind eye as dictators in those countries oppressed and looted with abandon.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
Nixon pressed him relentlessly, and also because the anti-Allende project fit perfectly with his view of the world and of America's place in it.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century
Like many American "regime change" operations, Operation Ajax seemed like a success at first.
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Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century

Stephen Kinzer _ Overthrow: America's Century