a flawed policy of spreading democracy
Particularly in the last 8 years during George W. Bush's presidency but stretching back from as early as 1899 the US always seems to have a policy of spreading democracy across the world.
Before I start I would like to add that on the democracy index the United States comes number 17 (Sweden comes number 1).
I wrote something similar to this about the American Empire, the US always seems to have a policy of neither spreading democracy to different nations across the world neither militarily or through free market.
But there is some hypocrisy stretching back as far as 1953 in their role of spreading democracy to the oil rich states of the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
For instance the CIA led a coup in a democratic Iranian election of 1953 destroying the Shah's opposition and giving him dictatorial powers over the Iranian people until the revolution in 1979.
In 1991 during the Gulf War the ground war lasted a mere 100 hours, President George HW. Bush stated that he didn't want coalition troops bogged down in a hostile land, but called on the Iraqi people to overthrow Saddam Hussein himself, this doesn't make any sense to me.
Before the Gulf War was over and the Iraqi Army were out of Kuwait the US were still leading air strikes against Iraqi cities, if they really wanted the people to overthrow Saddam why didn't they bomb the presidential palace, even if that didn't kill him it would jump start a revolution, but the Americans knew well that like Hitler in Nazi Germany Saddam was a brutal dictator who had everything planned out to keep himself in power.
And another reason America didn't want Saddam's government to fall if they didn't do it was the fact that Iraq has a Shia majority, that means if the majority overthrew Saddam (a Sunni muslim) your talking about a free government that would probably be annexed into the Islamic Republic of Iran (also a democracy).
No instead more people had to die fighting for freedom that could well have been won.
Also the US encouraged Pakistan to build their own nuclear program, now that country has over 100 nuclear weapons along with missiles that could launch them against every major city in India which I'd like to point out is the largest democracy in the world, why would they want to do that
Are they afraid India might try and spread democracy into the oil rich region?
And obviously they are in the (still failed state) Afghanistan to secure pipelines taking oil out of the Caspian Sea, and Obama is calling for more troops to head in there!
What it boils down to at the end of the day is the biggest kid on the block, and if they are so interested in spreading democracy in the region how come the 1,600,000 Palestinians forced to live in refuge camps under Israel are not allowed a free state?
For instance in 2005 the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was alleged to have said that Israel should be wiped off the map (a rumour that accelerated like a really bad Chinese whisper).
What he actually said was that Zionism as an ideology would fail in time, and even called for the birth of a new Palestinian state, a democracy where they would be able to express their views, (which is what a democracy is).
Which is what every professor in Farsi from Tel Aviv to Tokyo had repeatably told everybody!
And a democracy isn't a third world consumer country, its a country where free will is allowed the maximum it can be while restoring civilization, where people are free to do what they want once they don't hurt anybody else, not a country where you have to work all the time, don't get a good standard of education, where your work or trade isn't confidential and where you dumb down your kids by giving them stupid drugs like Ritalin that doesn't actually do anything but that!
As I said what is boils down to is the biggest kid on the block, that's what America wants to be, not to spread democracy, sure Russia today could even help them do that!
Before I start I would like to add that on the democracy index the United States comes number 17 (Sweden comes number 1).
I wrote something similar to this about the American Empire, the US always seems to have a policy of neither spreading democracy to different nations across the world neither militarily or through free market.
But there is some hypocrisy stretching back as far as 1953 in their role of spreading democracy to the oil rich states of the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
For instance the CIA led a coup in a democratic Iranian election of 1953 destroying the Shah's opposition and giving him dictatorial powers over the Iranian people until the revolution in 1979.
In 1991 during the Gulf War the ground war lasted a mere 100 hours, President George HW. Bush stated that he didn't want coalition troops bogged down in a hostile land, but called on the Iraqi people to overthrow Saddam Hussein himself, this doesn't make any sense to me.
Before the Gulf War was over and the Iraqi Army were out of Kuwait the US were still leading air strikes against Iraqi cities, if they really wanted the people to overthrow Saddam why didn't they bomb the presidential palace, even if that didn't kill him it would jump start a revolution, but the Americans knew well that like Hitler in Nazi Germany Saddam was a brutal dictator who had everything planned out to keep himself in power.
And another reason America didn't want Saddam's government to fall if they didn't do it was the fact that Iraq has a Shia majority, that means if the majority overthrew Saddam (a Sunni muslim) your talking about a free government that would probably be annexed into the Islamic Republic of Iran (also a democracy).
No instead more people had to die fighting for freedom that could well have been won.
Also the US encouraged Pakistan to build their own nuclear program, now that country has over 100 nuclear weapons along with missiles that could launch them against every major city in India which I'd like to point out is the largest democracy in the world, why would they want to do that
Are they afraid India might try and spread democracy into the oil rich region?
And obviously they are in the (still failed state) Afghanistan to secure pipelines taking oil out of the Caspian Sea, and Obama is calling for more troops to head in there!
What it boils down to at the end of the day is the biggest kid on the block, and if they are so interested in spreading democracy in the region how come the 1,600,000 Palestinians forced to live in refuge camps under Israel are not allowed a free state?
For instance in 2005 the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was alleged to have said that Israel should be wiped off the map (a rumour that accelerated like a really bad Chinese whisper).
What he actually said was that Zionism as an ideology would fail in time, and even called for the birth of a new Palestinian state, a democracy where they would be able to express their views, (which is what a democracy is).
Which is what every professor in Farsi from Tel Aviv to Tokyo had repeatably told everybody!
And a democracy isn't a third world consumer country, its a country where free will is allowed the maximum it can be while restoring civilization, where people are free to do what they want once they don't hurt anybody else, not a country where you have to work all the time, don't get a good standard of education, where your work or trade isn't confidential and where you dumb down your kids by giving them stupid drugs like Ritalin that doesn't actually do anything but that!
As I said what is boils down to is the biggest kid on the block, that's what America wants to be, not to spread democracy, sure Russia today could even help them do that!
Labels: 1953 iranian coup, gulf war, iranian revolution, united states
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