If certain people had left Iran alone to be a democracy under Prime Minister Mossadegh, it would have become the most powerful country in the Gulf and a powerful modernising influence on the Islamic world.

But they toppled Iran's democracy and made a deal with the Saudis instead

...and here we are 50 years later.

FYI, it's not mere "political correctness" that stops Europe from taking a harder line against internal Islamic extremism.

It is GUILT.

They used their own adventurism to create a problem where none existed. Congrats.

There was a period between the 50s and 70s that the CIA and MI6 were gallivanting around the world making power-drunk decisions like Buhari's DSS. Nobody talks about how they laid the basis for so many of today's problems during that period.

Toppling Mossadegh, assassinating Lumumba, supporting the Nigerians over the Biafrans because of oil, sponsoring no fewer than SIXTY coups and revolutions around the world, just because they could.

Well the results are in now.

E kuse o.

Anyone could have told you that playing with the world's political systems like a casual Snakes and Ladders game would lead to unintended consequences.

But that's what happens when your foreign policy was written by people who didn't allow black people visit dentists.