The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
Stephen Kinzer
The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.
With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
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