The US Government’s Love of Foreign Dictatorships
The US Government’s Love of Foreign Dictatorships
Written by Jacob G. Hornberger Thursday January 31, 2019 This article is republished with permission from Ron Paul Institute
Lest
anyone be tempted to believe that President Trump and other US
interventionists are intervening in Venezuela because of some purported
concern for the Venezuelan people, let’s examining just a few examples
that will bring a dose of reality to the situation. This latest
intervention is nothing more than another interventionist power play,
one intended to replace one dictatorial regime with another.
Egypt comes to mind. It is ruled by one of the most brutal and
tyrannical military dictatorships in the world. The US government loves
it, supports it, and partners with it. There is no concern for the
Egyptian citizenry, who have to suffer under this brutal tyranny and
oppression.
Saudi Arabia also comes to mind. It too is a brutal
and tyrannical dictatorship, also a murderous one. The US government
loves it too, supports it, and partners with it. There is no concern for
Saudi citizens who have to suffer under this brutal tyranny and
oppression.
Historically, this has been the case as well. Some examples:
1. Iran under the Shah. In 1953, the US national-security establishment
destroyed Iran’s experiment with democracy by ousting the
democratically elected prime minister, Mohamad Mossadegh, from power and
installed in his stead the Shah of Iran, one of the world’s most brutal
tyrants. Even worse, they helped train his national-security
establishment in the arts of torture, tyranny, and oppression. There was
no concern for the well-being or liberty of the Iranian people. Even
today, the US aim is to oust the current tyrannical regime and replace
it with a pro-US tyrannical regime.
2. Guatemala. In 1954, the
US national-security establishment ousted the democratically elected
president from office and installed in his stead a succession of brutal
military tyrants. The US-engineered coup threw the country into a
3-decade long civil war, which killed more than a million people. US
officials couldn’t care less.
3. Cuba. In the 1950s, the US
national-security establishment supported and partnered with a brutal,
corrupt dictator named Fulgencio Batista, who himself partnered with the
Mafia, the premier criminal organization in the world. There was never
any concern for the Cuban populace, including the young girls who
Batista’s goons were kidnapping and bringing to the Mafia’s casinos to
serve as sexual perqs for high rollers. Ever since the Cuban people
ousted Batista from power through a violent revolution and replaced him
with Fidel Castro, the US national-security establishment has never
ceased trying to get a subservient and compliant dictator back into
power in Cuba.
4. Chile. In 1973, the US national-security
establishment engineered the violent ouster of the democratically
elected president of the country, Salvador Allende, and his replacement
by one of the most tyrannical and corrupt military dictators in the
world, Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s goons proceeded to round up,
torture, rape, or murder tens of thousands of innocent people, including
two Americans, with the full support of the US national-security
establishment. There was never any concern for any of the victims,
including the two Americans (Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi), on the
part of US officials.
5. Iraq. In the 1980s, the US
national-security establishment supported and partnered with Saddam
Hussein, one of the world’s most brutal dictators, one who some US
officials would refer to in the 1990s as a “new Adolf Hitler.” They were
helping Saddam kill Iranians. Later, after US officials turned on their
partner Saddam in the 1990s, they targeted Iraqi citizens with death
and suffering through one of the most brutal sanctions systems in
history as a way of hopefully getting rid of Saddam and replacing him
with another US dictatorial partner. US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine
Albright expressed the official mindset of US officials toward the Iraqi
people by declaring that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children
from the sanctions were “worth it.”
Make no mistake about it:
the US interventionist mindset today toward Venezuela is no different.
That mindset is reflected by two things: one, the infliction of US
sanctions on Venezuela and, two, the official recognition of an
alternative president, in the hope that these two actions will produce a
violent revolution. The death toll from such a revolution, no matter
how high, doesn’t matter to US officials. After all, the people who will
be dying will be Venezuelans. Like with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Iraq, Cuba, Chile, and so many others, the liberty and well-being of the
citizenry is of no concern. All that matters is the ouster of an
independent regime and its replacement with a new dictatorial regime
that is eager and willing to be a partner and ally of the US government.
Reprinted with permission from Future of Freedom Foundation.
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