Word: outweigh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article in which you admitted that the Shah used torture and murder to sustain his regime, and then excused him for those deeds because he wasn't as bad as Hitler. Well, my God-who is? How inhuman does a despot have to be for his evil to outweigh his usefulness...
Some Washington policy planners have toyed with the idea of encouraging separatism, seeing the breakup of Iran as a kind of ultimate sanction against Khomeini. But the hazards of doing this far outweigh the advantages; true civil war in Iran would be the quickest way of destroying whatever stability remains in the Middle East. The lands of the Azerbaijanis stretch into Turkey and the Soviet Union, those of the Kurds into Turkey and Iraq, those of the Baluchis