No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
From Stephen Kinzer
Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane.
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.
There is very little hope that the United States or anyone else can do much to stabilize Iraq, Libya, Syria or Egypt. Stabilizing Iran, and bringing it back into the family of nations, is much more possible. That would be a 'win' for both sides.
'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.
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