History Of US Backed Dictators - Redux
Prime examples of the US setting up and backing corrupt dictators to serve our agenda, is the Shah, Saddam, Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Musharraf, Suharto, and Osama Bin Laden, not to mention many South American countries. We gave them the same weapons and technology that are killing our soldiers today. The practice of nation building and democratizing other countries is a sad ‘quick fix’ for whatever policy the US seeks. This won’t work anymore. Look at Sudan. We have allowed atrocities, as bad as or worse than Saddam and the Shah, to kill and displace millions of human beings. The US arrangement with Sudan is pitiful … as long as the impression remains that they have credible intelligence about Bin Laden, the US is ‘hands off’.
This is a puppet show. The puppeteers are following a script. The world is on to our script and won’t take it anymore. The US arms the same elements that they expect to fight in the future … they allow a crisis to evolve in order to market intervention to the American public and select allies.
To the populations back home the reason often given for was for “freedom”, “stability”, “containing the Soviet Union” and so on. For the people of the region that had their popular leaders overthrown and replaced with corrupt rulers, this was surely not freedom. Communism was an often used reason around the world, not just the Middle East, even if it was not the case. As Noam Chomsky details, it was often a convenient excuse, but the underlying threat was often that nations might be able to use their own resources and be an example for others to follow.
… the CIA played a considerable role in the overthrowing of Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet, who is credited with a 17-year reign of oppression and terror.
The U.S. government’s problem with Pakistan is similar to the one it had with Iran in 1979. The U.S. government placed Iranian Shah Reza Pahlavi in power in 1953, which extinguished the rising flames of democracy. This resulted in a populist Islamic revolution and extreme anti-American sentiment. Now, Pakistan’s brutal dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, is facing a populist uprising.
Twentieth-century American foreign policy is a paradox: the world’s oldest democracy repeatedly backs dictatorships in the name of freedom. Defenders of right-wing dictators argued they were a necessary evil. Blast the notion that this violation of core American values actually serves U.S. interests. The policy of coddling dictators has brought a backlash among foreign populations with long memories. “A crucial insight into the uncertain status of America in the world today.” Max Paul Friedman
Expect an update once extensive research is completed on the specific history of the US backing genocidal dictators, including Pakistani President Yahya Kahn, who killed 3 million Bangladeshi while President Nixon looked the other way. Prior to that, Suharto massacred millions under the blind eye of US and Cold War mentality while receiving USAID. To the well trained US media, these events are not really news worthy. Nothing that might humble or awaken the US public to some of our very own shady manipulations will be front page news … but they will be available in the blogosphere and real researchers. America can’t live in a bubble forever. Reality is a very sharp pin …
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January 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
You left out Suharto and whoever was running Pakistan when the military there killed 2M people in Bangladesh during the war of independence in 1971 . Great work on the blog .
January 11th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Josh:
Welcome to BlueBloggin
Thanks for the input. BossKitty will update the post with the information from your keen catch.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Thank you Josh. I welcome any help I can get. I will do more research for a specific post about genocidal dictators we have endorsed throughout this century. I am amazed at just how many I am beginning to unearth. I do believe America lives in a bubble and likes it that way. Please feel free to suggest anything I may have missed. I do try to research thoroughly on most topics. But, sometimes I just editorialize on what the MSM dishes out.
January 12th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
When has the US never supported dictators if it thinks it is in the US’s interests?
All great powers act the same, and always will.
JFK once famously said, in so many words, that America didn’t have permanent friends, only permanent interests.
You have an interesting site, and I’ll visit it often.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Christopher:
Welcome to BlueBloggin and we do try to keep it interesting.
The US is the new empire, with 700 military installations worldwide, we can’t say that we are not in everyone’s business. Every dictator that we have set up has been a disaster to their country, slaughtered their people and we eventually have to send in troops because they are standing up to us.
England learned it’s lesson and pulled out everywhere. But, as the US goes we know how to do everything better so now we are the empire.
BTW:I went to your site and I likes it. I also like that you have Existentialist Cowboy link.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Thank you and welcome Christopher. This common strategy the US has used since it came to be. Americans are slick talkers, great snake oil salesmen and entrepreneurs. US ability to promise the world and convince the unwilling to do our dirty work, pay our way into the pockets of notorious dictators … This strategy is backfiring now. The money we now use to get our way is borrowed. US leaders are skimping on their own people to fund outrageous schemes. America has changed. Time will tell whether anything has been learned.
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August 10th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
In view of current events (Aug. 08), it’s fascinating how all the US news media have managed completely to avoid mentioning the big oil pipeline routed through Turkey into Georgia, which will give the US an excuse for stationing troops along Russia’s southern border areas, and incidentally just to the east of the Middle East.
Given his views on human rights, Saakashvili seems to be just the latest in the long tradition of US-created monsters.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
LFB
Interesting connection, which has value. I have always thought it was very odd how Georgia has embraced Bush and considers him a hero. Oil, well with the Bush regime it’s always about oil. The world is his oil fountain.
The American media is a joke. They will once again pass over the real story and then wonder how they missed it. Maybe covering John Edwards affair and Paris Hilton’s video is the extent of their mental capabilities.