Coups, lies, dirty tricks: Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father (2000)
&gt; “Guys, 70 years have gone by! The current regime of Iran was not chosen by the CIA. It’s what happened when the Iranians chose their system of governance. For right or wrong, it’s theirs.”<p>Really? The current regime in Iran and the fate of that country was a direct consequence of exactly what came before that. And that throughout the Middle East.<p>That line of thinking is, honestly, either dumb or simply ignorant. But I guess not as stated:<p>“My father’s view was that democracy was like two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner,” says Stewart, “and indeed in the Arab world it’s very much like that. My father wasn’t in the business of exporting democracy. He was in the business of getting the oil to the west by hook or by crook.”