Erik Reuter wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:57:02AM -0400, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>
>
>>Instead we must enlit support against our greatest enemies wherever we
>>can find it.
>>
>
> So, would you claim that no potential "ally" is too evil for us to
> support to achieve our goals?
>
> Has the US never made a mistake in supporting a group more evil than the
> one the US meant to overthrow?
>
> How does the US record look on this issue? Would anyone care to share
> their opinions about the US interventions as for the best/for the
> worst/undecided in the following list (I'm just making this list off the
> top of my head, please anyone add the ones I've missed):
>
> WWI
> WW2
> Korea
> Vietnam
> Cuba
> Afghanistan/Pakistan
> Iran
> Iraq
> Sudan
> Yugoslavia
> [various in Central or South America, someone help list them please]
Recent:
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Panama
Chile
Grenada
Philippines
Cambodia
Thailand
Less recent, The U.S. used a policy derisively called
"gunboat diplomacy" to bend Central and South American
countries to do their will. This includes the creation of
the nation of Panama (stolen from Columbia) basically
because the U.S. wanted to control the building and
administration of the Panama Canal. Then there was the
Spanish-American war, a prime example of what out of control
jingoism can do. That's the one where the USS Maine blew up
in a Cuban harbor and the US press blamed the Spanish,
goading the country into war. There was no proof that the
Spanish blew up the Maine and in fact the evidence points to
an accidental explosion, but that didn't stop the press from
actually fabricating stories about how Spain did it.
--
Doug
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