NPR: No law mandates reading Miranda rights

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20. Yep, the original Stormin' Norman.

He had been an important investigator in the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, did a radio show for awhile, then during WWII helped to found and train the Iranian police force.

Then Kermit came around and asked for his help in the coup against Mossadeqh, which Norman did by utilizing his former ties to the police. Then he went on to re-found and re-train the police in a much more Gestapo style, and wound up creating one of the most blooodthirsty, ruthless, hated and fearsome secret police agencies in history, SAVAK.

It was amusing to see Stormin' Norman Jr. dance around those facts whenever he discussed the Middle East. I'm not sure if he ever acknowledged his father's actions in public; if he did I never saw it, and thus most of what he said on the subject was the continuation of a deception being played upon the American people.

The important thing to remember, any of you who find this new and historically interesting, is that most Iranians know all of this unacknowledged section of American history by heart. That's the only reason they need to hate us, and never forgive us, though we have provided them other reasons since. Any foreign policy approach to Iran that ignores this reality, as DimSon's did, is doomed to failure.