Jim Devine wrote: > > > it used to be that the DP was seen as the party of war. (Partly that > was an illusion, since the GOP was involved in smaller wars, such as > the attacks on countries in the Caribbean and Central America in the > interwar period.)
Not wholly an illusion. After 1933 the attacks on Latin America were under FDR. And Wilson had sent Pershing into Mexico! Nelson Rockefeller was FDR's Under Secretary of STate for Latin American Affairs: a nod to the Rockefeller oil interests in Venezuela! It is also worth remembering that HUAC was for many years a strictly DP operation, and that the Great Red Hunt was due more to Truman than to the loose cannon it's named after. I hope those are right who think Obama's supporters will be radicalized by Obama's reactionary record. (I have not the slightest hesitation to label it in advance.) But I think they will coniinue in denial and excuse, as they are now in rationalizing his loud announcement of conservative deomestic policies and plans for increased aggression around the world. He will make all too excellent a face for u.s. war crimes. I will be pleasantly surprised if he does _anything_ at all about u.s. systematic use of torture. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
