It's a ratchet effect. Population are not particularly interested either way; government tells US government they're not going to put US interests ahead of thei

It's a ratchet effect. Population are not particularly interested either way; government tells US government they're not going to put US interests ahead of their own people's, gets overthrown and replaced with a brutal dictatorship, population gets distinctly unfriendly, democratic government replaces dictator after revolution, opposes US interests as it plays well with population. Hey, that sounds kind of familiar... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Pahlavi_dynasty_.281925.E2.80.931979.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Pahlavi_dynasty_.281925.E2...