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Originally Posted by hershie
Wasn't this also the tactic and pattern when the US or their proxies mined the harbour in Nicaragua or toppled an elected leader in Chile. And then they turnaround and fund and send arms to brutal unelected dictators that support their causes. The gov't has an interesting twist on what promoting democracy means in the world.
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Yup, exactly, Chile was almost the same situation. They assassinated Salvador Allende, and then installed a brutal dictator, Augusto Pinochet, who is about to go on trial at the world court for his crimes against his own people. They also did the same thing with Arastide in Haiti less than two years ago, he was elected with over 90% of the vote. Now Haiti is a military dictatorship. They don't care about democracy, when they say democracy, they mean governments that will do exactly what the US wants them to do. If they act in the interest of their own people rather than the interest of the World Bank, they're terrorists.
An interesting side note, not a lot of people remember that Reagan called his illegal wars in South America part of his "war on terror", same words, same illegal actions. And 99% of the American people just sit by and watch TV, and then wonder why everyone in the world hates them. "Must be because they're jealous."