Freedom for us, dictatorship for others

https://foster2forever.com/2024/08/xpqtd7t.html Father Orthoduck will make this post very brief. The comic above illustrates an attitude that is all too common in USA history. Beginning in the 1950’s, USA political doctrine was that it was safer to support friendly dictators than it was to take a chance on unknown freedom movements. Thus, in the post-World War II period, the USA began to interfere in the national life of countries in Latin America, particularly in countries close to the USA. Several times USA troops were sent in to quell popular uprisings in order to preserve a friendly dictator in power. The ostensible excuse was always that the USA was preventing a leftist takeover. Since every uprising was held to be leftist, this meant that the USA always had to interfere on the side of the dictator. The fact that there were a couple of truly leftist uprisings in both Cuba and Nicaragua was only thought to be proof that every uprising was to be considered leftist.

https://www.completerehabsolutions.com/blog/9mvmb99t This only earned the USA a significant amount of dislike, growing to hatred, in many Latin American countries. If it is taken as a given by African-Americans that the police are not to be trusted, it is also taken as a given by Latin Americans that the USA will invade, given an opportunity. In the Middle East some of the same policy was in place. The USA supported the Shah of Iran against pro-democracy movements. When the explosion finally came, it was an explosion that went to an extreme, because it took extremists to be willing to face USA provided weapons and USA training in the hands of an absolute dictator, the Shah of Iran. To this day we continue to reap the harvest of our supporting a dictator over against a pro-democracy movement, just like in Cuba we are reaping the the harvest of our supporting a torturing dictator against any pro-democracy movement. So, instead of the Shah of Iran, we have an Ayatollah, and against the dictator Batista, we have the dictator Castro.

The comic above shows that we have yet to learn our lesson. Faced with a pro-democracy movement, we are so fearful of a possible extremist takeover, that we are all too willing to support a repressive dictator. You see, democracy is for Americans. The rest of the world needs to be controlled for our benefit. Until the day that we believe in practice that democracy is for everyone, until the day that we are willing to fully support pro-democracy movements, until the day that we are willing to take the chance that a movement may have overly radical results at first, until that day, we shall be known as not true to our beliefs in many parts of the world. You see, revolutionary USA was a bit extremist at times. Revolutionary France killed too many innocent people. Revolutionary Greece did away with various Turks without a trial and without a clear determination of guilt. Yet, everyone of those countries is a stable democracy nowadays. But, yes, there are failures that one can point to. Revolutionary Russia gave us 70 years of pain, agony, and suffering. Having said that, did you know that the USA interfered in the Russian Revolution? That did not make us liked by the Reds who eventually won their internal civil war by 1923 in spite of our support of the Whites.

https://merangue.com/86xu9mqv Nevertheless, the comic above shows that “here we go again.” The comic above appears to be almost arguing for interference to prevent the possibility of “radical” elements taking over Egypt. Look closely at the comic above. It is clearly saying that the choices are a dictator or a Muslim extremist. This is setting up the stage for the USA to interfere, in other words to either send troops or to send arms and money or to give permission to Israel to interfere in a much more violent and direct manner. Is there a real danger of extremism? Yes, of course. But, is it our place to determine for other countries how to achieve freedom? No, it is not. And, until we learn to abide by our stated principles, we will continue to earn the enmity of those countries who gain freedom of choice in spite of USA opposition.

Buy Alprazolam Online With Mastercard Sadly, like the Roman Empire, we seem to assume that the rights we espouse are not truly universal, but only apply to USA citizens. For non-USA citizens, we often do not support their rights, rather we support a stable government (even if it be a strong dictatorship) in order to ensure that that country will not be a problem for us. And, this goes against our publicly stated principles.