Why are Americans so afraid of dictators? They seem to like them?

Question

if they kow tow to American interest. Pinochet in Chilli, Marcos in the Philippines Abacha, General Sani ----------------------------Nigeria
Amin, Idi ------------------------------------------Uganda
Banzer, Colonel Hugo ---------------------------Bolivia
Batista, Fulgencio --------------------------------Cuba
Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal ----------------------------Brunei
Botha, P.W. ---------------------------------------South Africa
Branco, General Humberto ---------------------Brazil
Cedras, Raoul -------------------------------------Haiti
Cerezo, Vinicio -----------------------------------Guatemala
Chiang Kai-Shek ---------------------------------Taiwan
Cordova, Roberto Suazo ------------------------Honduras
Christiani, Alfredo -------------------------------El Salvador
Diem, Ngo Dihn ---------------------------------Vietnam
Doe, General Samuel ----------------------------Liberia
Duvalier, Francois --------------------------------Haiti
Duvalier, Jean Claude----etc

Answer 1

That list is wrong in many places:

Raoul Cedras was never supported by the United States and was overthrown in an American-led invasion of Haiti in 1994, and Jean Bertrand Aristide was restored.

Ian Smith was not a dictator, but Prime Minister of Rhodesia, and most certainly did not receive American support thanks to racial policies similar to that of South Africa.

Though at first friendly with Doe, America eventually cut off all support and left him to be tortured to death in the Liberian Civil War.

Pol Pot was definitely not liked by the United States, and his Khmer Rouge regime was wiped out with American help, although Pol Pot managed to hide in the woods for some 20 years before he died.

Manuel Noriega was de facto head of state in Panama, and he certainly didn't get American approval since we overthrew him and locked him up in prison in Florida.

The United States had an embargo against P.W. Botha and South Africa thanks to apartheid, and the United States influenced the Olympic Committee to bar South Africa from competition as long as there was apartheid.

Turgut Ozal was a democratically elected prime minister of Turkey and had absolutely no dictatorship during his term whatsoever.

Vinicio Cerezo was a democratically elected President of Guatemala in what were considered free and fair elections, and while having to put down numerous coups (which, I might add, had no known American involvement), managed to finish his term and peacefully hand over power to his successor.

Raul Suazo Cordova was another democratically elected leader. So was Alfredo Cristiani.

Last, but not least, the United States certainly did not like Idi Amin, and provided no support to him, going so far as to close their embassy in Uganda.

Yes, most of those names are correct, but due to having to look at the complete list, I cannot trust it as accurate, being a historian and political scientist who studies coup d'etats and dictators and their dictatorships.

Answer 2

Friendly dictators

Abacha, General Sani ----------------------------Nigeria
Amin, Idi ------------------------------------------Uganda
Banzer, Colonel Hugo ---------------------------Bolivia
Batista, Fulgencio --------------------------------Cuba
Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal ----------------------------Brunei
Botha, P.W. ---------------------------------------South Africa
Branco, General Humberto ---------------------Brazil
Cedras, Raoul -------------------------------------Haiti
Cerezo, Vinicio -----------------------------------Guatemala
Chiang Kai-Shek ---------------------------------Taiwan
Cordova, Roberto Suazo ------------------------Honduras
Christiani, Alfredo -------------------------------El Salvador
Diem, Ngo Dihn ---------------------------------Vietnam
Doe, General Samuel ----------------------------Liberia
Duvalier, Francois --------------------------------Haiti
Duvalier, Jean Claude-----------------------------Haiti
Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz, King ---------------------Saudi Arabia
Franco, General Francisco -----------------------Spain
Hitler, Adolf ---------------------------------------Germany
Hassan II-------------------------------------------Morocco
Marcos, Ferdinand -------------------------------Philippines
Martinez, General Maximiliano Hernandez ---El Salvador
Mobutu Sese Seko -------------------------------Zaire
Noriega, General Manuel ------------------------Panama
Ozal, Turgut --------------------------------------Turkey
Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza ---------------Iran
Papadopoulos, George --------------------------Greece
Park Chung Hee ---------------------------------South Korea
Pinochet, General Augusto ---------------------Chile
Pol Pot---------------------------------------------Cambodia
Rabuka, General Sitiveni ------------------------Fiji
Montt, General Efrain Rios ---------------------Guatemala
Salassie, Halie ------------------------------------Ethiopia
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira --------------------Portugal
Somoza, Anastasio Jr. --------------------------Nicaragua
Somoza, Anastasio, Sr. -------------------------Nicaragua
Smith, Ian ----------------------------------------Rhodesia
Stroessner, Alfredo -----------------------------Paraguay
Suharto, General ---------------------------------Indonesia
Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas -----------------------Dominican Republic
Videla, General Jorge Rafael ------------------Argentina
Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed ----------------------Pakistan

These are the ones that the US had very freindly relations with and some they put into power ousting democratically elected governments.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html

Answer 3

Well that just shows when people don't step up to the plate and take a swing at being counted? Like voters? Or how the media has covered up for politicians and tyrants everywhere??
So in essence your question is? Because before I would ask why I would research, for it is elementary, that is why you don't say why do Americans? You are talking about 300 million people and counting and out of that maybe 18% is truly informed? And that goes less in a percentage in other countries. But then out of the 18% the pass the word theory goes to freedom of speech and again research helps along with the freedom of this very Internet program we are on. So rather than blame the public, help the public with the truth, but first realize they may not know these things? And they may not be all true either?

Answer 4

hi Rick! I spoke back your previous question approximately Chavez. i did no longer make any exceptions as quickly as I mentioned that i do unlike dictators. So i understand you're no longer speaking to me. only theory i could say hi.

Answer 5

Its all political game.....

Politician says to American people and even in education system that Dictators, Monarchy, Communism, Socialism etc.... alll bad and create a hate in young minds....

But in real they do like them 'cuz of self interest...such oil, minerals, and so on.....

Answer 6

It has always been agreed that a "benign despot" is not a bad thing. The problem is the system that enables any despot is going to sooner or later (probably sooner) enable a very bad one.

Answer 7

Learn from this saying..."If you dont learn from the past, history is known to repeat itself."

Dictators use unjust ways to control the peoples choices..i.e. genocide, food control.

Answer 8

If they control their country in a favorable way, yeah they are not going to be hated.

Answer 9

You left out a lot---Castro, Hussein to name a few, if they behave America likes them if not they go away

Answer 10

Way to copy and paste.

Next time, do it so we can actually READ it.