U.S. State Department Policy Planning Study #23, 1948:
?Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity [U.S. military-economic supremacy]... To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming... We should cease to talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.?
? George Kennan
Director of Policy Planning
U.S. State Department
1948
Well, since you say that America has not done any thing bad or taken over, what about killing the Chilean Leader and installing a lovely Dictator name Pinocet. Yes a democratic goverment taken over and over thrown. 10,000 or more killed. Thats like 3x the amount of 9/11. I don't see people in chile attack you.
What about Panama, since you mentioned it. The 2 US Panamania men they hand picked as leaders have been in power since the over throw of Marco there, and thats been 10 years. Also Panama is not allowed [ even thou it is a state ] to have its own Army anymore. The US will not allow it. I can see of course since the US built the canal why they want to protect their interests , which is the canal and owning the area.
Haiti ? The U.S. supported the Duvalier family dictatorship for 30 years, then opposed the reformist priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. How many died under that bastard. Yup freedom given there MY ASS ! With this as background, the Clinton White House found itself in the awkward position of having to pretend ? because of all their rhetoric about ?democracy? ? that they supported Aristide?s return to power in Haiti after he had been ousted in a 1991 military coup. After delaying his return for more than two years, Washington finally had its military restore Aristide to office, but only after obliging the priest to guarantee that he would not help the poor at the expense of the rich, and that he would stick closely to free-market economics.
Following the fall of the Somoza regime, which had been backed for decades by the U.S., the CIA formed and armed the covert army known as the ?Contras? from the remains of Somoza?s National Guard. Assisted by covert U.S. air power, this proxy army inflicted considerable death and destruction across the Nicaraguan countryside. From a talk by John Stockwell, 13-year veteran of the CIA and former U.S. Marine Corps major:
?Systematically, the Contras have been assassinating religious workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators. Remember the ?Assassination Manual? that surfaced in 1984? It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror to traumatize society so that it cannot function.
You were left behind... America has never been Colonial off of our own continent.
Really ?
Economically you control many countrys. I cannot name it but an African country that produces Cotton, the largest amount of cooton in the world has been almost bankrupted by US Cotton Farmers. How , why the US subsidies these farmers so that they can undercut the Cotton farmers around the world, bankrupting them, then buying the farmland up and reselling at a higher price. Fair game ecnomics. But Do you think this causes happy people or pissed off people.
Cuba , what has it ever done to the US really. It has a different Political system. yes its people are poor. But the US has invaded this country, place so many sansctions on it, shit the US has cause alot of pain for the people there. And all it does is go " NA NA NA NA" look at our good life, over throw your goverment. Yup, peace love there.
Fidel Castro came to power at the beginning of 1959. A U.S. National Security Council meeting of March 10, 1959 included on its agenda the feasibility of bringing ?another government to power in Cuba.? There followed 40 years of terrorist attacks, bombings, full-scale military invasion, sanctions, embargoes, isolation, assassinations...Cuba had carried out The Unforgivable Revolution, a very serious threat of setting a ?good example? in Latin America.
The saddest part of this is that the world will never know what kind of society Cuba could have produced if left alone, if not constantly under the gun and the threat of invasion, if allowed to relax its control at home. The idealism, the vision, the talent were all there. But we?ll never know. And that of course was the idea.
From Killing hope , yes a lefty loving book, but facts is facts.
Euro people, those evil people having a Civil war, just like the US had North vs Smouth, but not good for the Economy, and those pipelines and money to be made by allowing certain gruops power. Lets BOMB the balkans !!
Bad News ?The fact that some elements [of the U.S. government] may appear to be potentially ?out of control? can be beneficial to creating and reinforcing fears and doubts within the minds of an adversary?s decision makers...
?That the U.S. may become irrational and vindictive if its vital interests are attacked should be a part of the national persona we project to all adversaries... It hurts to portray ourselves as too fully rational and cool-headed...?
? U.S. Strategic Command
Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence
1995 (The U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, is the military entity responsible for formulating U.S. nuclear policy.)
Many the US has not like Brttian moved into India and such, but when a country does not do as the US asks , well look out. Just look at what happen to the States old friend Sadam. Nothing was wrong until he decided to invaded Kuwait. Remeber Kuwait not USA. Since then the US said, OK now your evil lets take you out.
Leave the rest for retort.
