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Stephen Kinzer: "Dunia telah membayar mahal karena kurangnya demokrasi...

"Dunia telah membayar mahal karena kurangnya demokrasi di sebagian besar Timur Tengah. Operasi Ajax [kode CIA untuk kudeta Agustus 1953] mengajarkan para tiran dan calon tiran di sana bahwa pemerintah paling kuat di dunia bersedia mentoleransi penindasan tanpa batas selama rezim yang menindas bersahabat dengan Barat dan perusahaan minyak Barat. Itu membantu memiringkan keseimbangan politik di wilayah yang luas jauh dari kebebasan dan menuju kediktatoran."

--- Stephen Kinzer

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.