Examples-In '53 the Shah of Iran was overthrown."Soft left" social democrat Mossedeq was elected. The US funded and assisted Islamic rightists to overthrow him and put the Shah back on the throne. In '79, those Islamic militants overthrew the Shah themselves, and put in power the current Islamic Republic.In Panama, CIA employee Manuel Noreiga helped kill left-leaning president Torrijos and took over Panama. A few years later he went nationalist and stopped sharing his drug profits with the CIA, leading the US to declare him an enemy and invade Panama. CIA and Israeli intelligence helped fund Hamas in order to provide a counter-weight to the left-nationalist Fatah in the Palestinian movement. Today Hamas is an enemy of the US and a power among Palestinians. Osama was supported by U.S. ntelligence as part of the instigation of the war in Afghanistan, which drew the Soviets into that country. In '01 Bin Laden attacked his former employers.
Why does the U.S. help create its own enemies?
2007-10-31 01:28:06 · 8 answers · asked by Dont Call Me Dude 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Being self-centered imperialists, our nation doesn't recognize the effects of its policies until the blowback.
2007-10-31 02:36:09 · answer #1 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heh, and Americans wonder why the rest of the world hates them. They help create their own enemies by giving out funding with way too little thought, and impulsive violence doesn't make them any better.
2007-10-31 01:50:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing new and certainly not exclusive to the US.
Remember Chamberlain and 'Peace in our time'?
Foreign affairs is a matter of deciding which SOB you are going to support and which SOB you are going to oppose at any given moment in history. Every one of them is an SOB to some degree. You can't reject them all.
This is nothing unique. Not all the choices panned out in favor of everyone's view of morality but, as long as we remain the most powerful nation in the world, I'll live with it.
Consider the alternative.
2007-10-31 01:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don't seem to ever learn, do we? You gave just a couple of examples and I'm sure you know theres many more. At this point you can already see that Iraq will not be our loving friend 20 years from now
2007-10-31 01:44:27 · answer #4 · answered by Michael G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"those who oppose us are wrong?"regerugg .u sound fascist.
to answer the question who knows.if u.s would have stayed out of afghanistan and let russia kick the afghans asses.9/11 wouldn't never had happen.but we went in and supplied the afghan faction,which today is known as the taliban with mortars and rocket launchers,and tought them how to improvise with explosives
2007-10-31 01:43:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Saddam is given weapons and intel to fight Iran then Bush 1 is turn on him like a snake. They also try to ferment a revolution in Cuba that failed. Its unscrupulous gangsterism
2007-10-31 01:36:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You seem to be a member of the "blame America first, last and always" crowd. If people hate us, it is too bad for them. The US has done the right things in the world. Those who oppose us are wrong.
2007-10-31 01:34:10 · answer #7 · answered by regerugged 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
it's the 1930's all over again. . .there is no such thing as "peace through appeasement" . Soooo why appease the rest of the world??? pisson-em
2007-10-31 01:54:40 · answer #8 · answered by thetruth 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋