But I still can't find anything exactly *wrong* in his argument. Even if you are right about Greece -- this is not a central issue in his thesis is it? Even if you are right about Somalia -- do you actually think that his is why we went in? This seems to be a case you are familiar with. Is the figure of 10,000 Somali killed wrong in any way?
One of the interesting things about Google News is that it presents news stories from outside the US. I frequently notice stories about Iraqi casulties that don't make US media. I also notice, while we are on the subject, an increasing use of the "evil twin" defense by the US military.
It wasn't US who had Nick Berg in custody. It was the Iraqis. It wasn't us that bombed that weddding. It was the Iraqis. It wasn't us who raided the Chalabi (sp?) compound. It was the Iraqis. I thought the Iraqi military was on our side?
I am pretty sure the author of the Eldorado Sun is to the left of me politically. This may not mean that he doesn't have some things to say. The details about Haiti and Guatemala sound pretty familiar. The fact is that most Americans would adamantly deny that the US has ever gone to war on behalf of a fruit company. He is right about that. Yet it is sober historical fact.
That being said, the bit about Yugoslavia sounds a bit wild-eyed. Nor does that paragraph contain many facts.
I grant you the overall tone of condemnation. I don't especially like it either. But I think he may be right....
(?)
Dana
>>I'd like feedback on this. It looks true to me, but I'd like to be
>>sure that isn't my prejudices talking. I can say, though, that if it
>>was bradcast on KUNM, that's a pretty powerful endorsement.
>>
>>http://eldoradosun.com/sunpg2.html#Arrogance
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>
>I disagreed with most of the article. It was a radical extremist
>polemic filled with distortions and half truths. For instance the
>author claimed that the US intervened in twice in Greece. While he
>didn't mention the years, I'm assuming it involved the civil war in
>1949 and the coup in 1967. There was no intervention in 1949. The US
>supplied arms and equipment to the democratically elected Greek
>government at the time. They were fighting a communist insurgency
>that was much worse in comparison to the Shining Path in Latin
>America, and the equivalent of Pol Pot. They had a nasty habit of
>tieing up and disemboweling those who did not support them. This
>included priests, teachers and doctors. Such brave liberators of the
>proletariat. The Greek government, with British help and military
>advisors finally put down this brutal group in the mid 1950's.
>
> As far as I can figure the second intervention involved the 1967
>military coup. What he doesn't mention that the US did sever
>relations with Greece immediately afterwards, and froze all military
>aid and contracts.
>
>Generally this person is an apologist for the extremist imperialist
>communist system of thought. Nothing to do with the left or right
>wing, rather he seems to support and serves as an apologist of some
>fairly brutal human rights abusers. this sort I prefer to dismiss
>and ignore.
>
>larry
>
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>
>Larry C. Lyons
>
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