By Hushang Manuchehri & Walter E. Block
Aircrafts, attached to Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW9) fly over the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman) The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.
There’s a stubborn dogma running through the Western libertarian establishment, and it just won’t die: every foreign threat, we’re told, is somehow a mirror of our own sins. Lew Rockwell, Rand and Ron Paul, Hans Hoppe, Thomas Massie — big names, all of them, at least in this arena — keep reaching for the same worn-out crutch, the myth of 1953 coup, to explain away the Islamic Republic’s decades of aggression. Hostage-taking, proxy wars, regional terror — they wave it all away as “blowback,” and the story practically writes itself. Comforting to isolationist theory, sure. Historically and morally bankrupt? Absolutely.
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