X-Message-Number: 18798
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:53:51 +0000
From: Philip Rhoades <>
Subject: Why do so many hate the US? Will it lead to all our deaths? - Part II

The reason why US foreign policy has been so bad for so long would 
require a book but here are some pointers:

"... neoconservative Jeane Kirkpatrick ... argued in 1979 that Third 
World revolutions are illegitimate, the products of Soviet expansion 
rather than of local historical forces opposed to repressive 
dictatorships. ... Kirkpatrick had solved the moral problem of the 
rollbackers: why it is fine to overthrow left-wing governments and make 
friends with rightist dictators. The Kirkpatrick Doctrine held that 
right-wing dictatorships can evolve into democratic governments while 
left-wing nations cannot. Under this Doctrine, Marcos, Pinochet, and 
P.W. Botha were leading their countries down the path of democracy."

- Rollback: Right-wing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy Friendly dictators
 
"In strict confidence ...I should welcome almost any war, for I think 
this country needs one."

- Theodore Roosevelt, American president from 1901-1909

"We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of the world's 
population... Our real task in the coming period is ... to maintain 
this positon of disparity ..."

- George Kennan, head of US State Deparatment Policy Planning Staff, 
1946
 
"The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right 
and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately 
deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among 
the people who guide both political parties."

- Confronting the Third World, p296

"We live constantly with the tensions and costs of the United States' 
aggressive foreign policy, which not only affects profoundly the 
likelihood of war or peace throughout the world but also imposes 
monumental constraints on urgently needed social and economic changes 
in the Third World today."

- Confronting the Third World, p298

"A brutally repressive regime was essential to America's interests 
because there was no civilian political option for it to turn to, and 
Washington had no hesitation in immediately endorsing the new order and 
aiding it, revealing again its two-decades-long preference for 
dictators and repressive regimes in the hemisphere. Chile also proved 
once more that the United States could never gracefully accept the 
verdict of democratic politics in any nation, where anti-Yankee 
sentiment was overwhelming for fear of seeing not only its local 
investments lost but also encouraging anti-United States economic 
legislation elsewhere in the hemisphere."

- Confronting the Third World, p221

-- 
Philip Rhoades

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