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US Foreign Policy (apart from Iraq)

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 26 January 2005
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US Political and Military Interventions since 1945
The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since 1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests), undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. It has done so in nations such as

China (1945-51)
South Africa (1960s-1980s)
France (1947)
Bolivia (1964-75)
Marshall Islands (1946-58)
Australia (1972-75)
Italy (1947-1975)
Iraq (1972-75)
Greece (1947-49)
Portugal (1974-76)
Philippines (1945-53)
East Timor (1975-99)
Korea (1945-53)
Ecuador (1975)
Albania (1949-53)
Argentina (1976)
Eastern Europe (1948-56)
Pakistan (1977)
Germany (1950s)
Angola (1975-1980s)
Iran (1953)
Jamaica (1976)
Guatemala (1953-1990s)
Honduras (1980s)
Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)
Nicaragua (1980s)
Middle East (1956-58)
Philippines (1970s-90s)
Indonesia (1957-58)
Seychelles (1979-81)
Haiti (1959)
South Yemen (1979-84)
Western Europe (1950s-1960s)
South Korea (1980)
Guyana (1953-64)
Chad (1981-82)
Iraq (1958-63)
Grenada (1979-83)
Vietnam (1945-53)
Suriname (1982-84)
Cambodia (1955-73)
Libya (1981-89)
Laos (1957-73)
Fiji (1987)
Thailand (1965-73)
Panama (1989)
Ecuador (1960-63)
Afghanistan (1979-92)
Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)
El Salvador (1980-92)
Algeria (1960s)
Haiti (1987-94)
Brazil (1961-64)
Bulgaria (1990-91)
Peru (1965)
Albania (1991-92)
Dominican Republic (1963-65)
Somalia (1993)
Cuba (1959-present)
Iraq (1990s)
Indonesia (1965)
Peru (1990-present)
Ghana (1966)
Mexico (1990-present)
Uruguay (1969-72)
Colombia (1990-present)
Chile (1964-73)
Yugoslavia (1995-99)
Greece (1967-74)

US Perversions of Foreign Elections
The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign elections, and sometimes engineered sham “demonstration” elections to ward off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such practices have occurred in nations such as:

Philippines (1950s)
Italy (1948-1970s)
Lebanon (1950s)
Indonesia (1955)
Vietnam (1955)
Guyana (1953-64)
Japan (1958-1970s)
Nepal (1959)
Laos (1960)
Brazil (1962)
Dominican Republic (1962)
Guatemala (1963)
Bolivia (1966)
Chile (1964-70)
Portugal (1974-75)
Australia (1974-75)
Jamaica (1976)
El Salvador (1984)
Panama (1984, 89)
Nicaragua (1984, 90)
Haiti (1987, 88)
Bulgaria (1990-91)
Albania (1991-92)
Russia (1996)
Mongolia (1996)
Bosnia (1998)

Forum posts

  • Most Americans do not seem to realize that it is not America the terrorists hate, but rather it is America’s foreign policy. Terrorists hate what the United States has done to the world over the course of the past half-century — all the violence, the bombings, the depleted uranium, the cluster bombs, the assassinations, the promotion of torture, the overthrow of governments, and more. William Blum, a journalist and former U.S. State Department official, points out that terrorists — whatever else they might be — are also rational human beings, which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. He contends most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States. Indeed, this view is consistent with what the "victims" of U.S. foreign policy have been saying all along. A Palestinian resident of Jerusalem recently stated, "We feel sorry for the [Sept. 11] attack, and I am sorry all those people died, but [the Americans] have to see this as a reaction to U.S. policy outside the United States. There are many people in the world who are angry at the U.S. — the Europeans, Japan, Kosovo, Yugoslavia. The United States makes millions of people suffer while leaving only a few thousand to live the high life."

    • you are wrong, they are all nice guys, who want to help the poor coloureds around the world. they bleedin commies, crazy lefties, and moosleem terrorists are the only ones who will disagree.
      shittalker smith isle of dogs UK

    • Generally.. Iraqians are being forced to vote or else. This to make the US look like its so called ’democracy is ’working. Iraqians couldn’t care less about voting under these circumstances. The US is just shoving it down there throats. The vote will help image and justify them being there and you can be sure it’ll be a pro type US gov’t and will probably justify them staying even longer due to the violence and opposition we will see. Just an amazing master plan of deceipt that’ll just go on and on on purpose. All for oil duh..all for oil..