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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
You can go ahead and put up the names, but at the same time I want to know from you what should the strategy have been at the time? Who should we have supported, anyone? No one? I know that you can come up with a list of despised dictators but that's not the hard part.
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Okay Jim...I'll bite.
Just for starters:
How about the somozas in Nicaragua? We put this family in in the 1920's. That fool brooklynite keeps speaking of "objectives" but why did we keep a family of successive despots in until 1979? There was no threat of communism for much of that tenure. So why? Because it was easy to control with money. We didnt give a damn about democracy or "the american way". it was about sheer control and about serious violations of human rights and misuse of US aid. What could we have done differently? Perhaps we could have not fed them the money for so many years. When the money stopped, so did their reign.
How about Mobutu in the congo? Didnt he make off with like 5 billion dollars in money bilked by US taxpayers all because he agreed to close the Soviet embassy. Surely we could have backed a different man...a man that would share some of the 5 billion dollars to his starving people.
How about Idi Amin? Us aid in dollars and military equipment all while he killed THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND OF HIS OWN PEOPLE. Yep, the American way right there. We really liberated those poor people and showed them a NEW way of life.
How about Pol Pot? I love when idiots like this brooklynite fool talk completely out of their ass and have not a clue about what they are farting out. Pol Pot came to power as a result of the frenzy from illegal US bombing during the Viet Nam war. I said ILLEGAL US bombing. Then, because Pol Pot hated the soviets and they were natural enemies to Viet Nam, the US decided to support the government and did so for five years while he killed over a MILLION of his own people. What could they have done differently? HMMMMM....maybe tried to fight this guy who was committing genocide? This brooklynite fool actually tries to claim that the US helped rid the country of tyranny. What a moron! The US SUPPORTED IT! The Vietnamese liberated Cambodia from Pol Pot.
Thats just starters...you want more?