Divine Struggle Quotes
He was battling for delegates. Most Republicans favored Roosevelt as did many Democrats, but at that time Presidential candidates of the parties were chosen by the party delegates—not the people. Roosevelt was too reformist minded and independent for most Republicans of the day. So the party operatives bypassed TR and selected the unpopular William Howard Taft instead. Roosevelt then ran as a third party candidate (the Bull Moose Party) and outpolled Taft in the election, but Democrat Woodrow Wilson won as Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote.
of the Central Intelligence Agency fomented Iranian Revolution. At the request of the British MI6 intelligence service, the CIA implemented a “spontaneous” coup d’etat to overthrow the popularly elected Iranian President Mohammad Mosaddegh. One of the reasons this is a very important quotation is that it shows an interesting aspect if jihad—Islamic Holy War. One of the many tactics the CIA used was to bribe key Islamic Imams and other religious officials to declare a jihad against Mosaddegh—to tell the people that it was their Islamic duty to get rid of Mosaddegh who was a threat to Islam and the word of God. The quote illustrates that most of the Western powers who wanted to achieve a political objective would play this jihad religious card—one that was much easier to start than to control. When Eisenhower urged using the jihad tactic, he did not imagine that jihad would be used against the United States for the 9-11 attack and the Iraq and Iran wars. See {637008} and {637007}.
