The Russian Hack
Whether or not the Russian government hacked our 2016 election resulting in the election of Donald Trump is true, I only have one questions: why the outrage? Now, I am certainly not saying it is okay for Russia to do something like that. Far from it. However, is the United States really in any position to show moral indignation over a foreign government doing something like that to our democratic process when America in the past has literally assisted in the overthrow of democracies in order to install dictatorships? A prime example is Operation Ajax. People wonder why our relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran is so turbulent. Well in 1953 the United States used the Central Intelligence Agency along with British intelligence (MI6) to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in order to install a monarch named Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as the Shah (King) And why did we do this? To make a long story short, Prime Minister Mosaddegh ...