"In addition to Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, Brazil, and Chile, the U.S. also had a hand overthrowing the governments of Hawaii in 1893, Cuba in 1898, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, and of course Iraq. That’s quite a record. And no, these acts of aggression against foreign governments were not aimed at eliminating an existential threat to Americans, nor were they intended to spread democracy. For the most part, as Kinzer points out, these cases were ones in which the U.S. was attacking a much weaker nation, and it was “usually because it [sought] to impose its ideology, increase its power, or gain control of valuable resources.” In other words: Empire. Keep in mind that this list includes regime change specifically. The record of U.S. interventionism in general is much uglier." - antiwar/blog/2013/08/21/how-many-governments-has-the-us-overthrown/
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:19:06 +0000
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