Re: "God Is On Our Side."
Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing
Dictatorships, 1921-1965
David F. Schmitz
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date: May 1999
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Our Sons of Bitches 3
1 Peace Must First Be Riveted: The Republican Response to Revolution and
Dictatorship 9
2 The Origins of the Good Neighbor Policy: The Quest for Order in Latin
America 46
3 From Accommodation to Appeasement to War: The Roosevelt Administration and
Fascism in Europe 85
4 Disreputable Governments or Allies? The Truman Administration and
Right-Wing Dictatorships 125
5 Thank God They're on Our Side: Eisenhower, Dulles, and Dictators 178
6 New Frontiers? Kennedy, Johnson, and the Return to Intervention 234
Epilogue. Carter, Kirkpatrick, and Right-Wing Dictators 293
Conclusion 304
Notes 311
Bibliography 347
Index 365
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:14268] Re: Re: Re: The Vulnerable Planet (was Re: suburbia)
> At 11:37 AM 6/28/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >if everywhere you went
> >you noticed that half the people you came in contact
> >with died, wouldn't you feel that maybe you should
> >stop going places? Whether or not the spread of
> >disease was an _active_ measure, it certainly was a
> >_conscious_ one.
>
> right. I doubt that anyone on the European side considered the ethics of
> this, though I don't think they'd heard of the germ theory of disease.
They
> probably interpreted the native die-off as a sign (once again) that "God
is
> on our side." The Indians probably didn't consider the ethical side,
either.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>