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Looks like there's a golden rule - blame US for everything.
by gandhium 9y ago
Looks like there's a golden rule - blame US for everything.
- dotancohen 9y agoActually, a US Senate committee has this to say on the topic two years later: > The CIA attempted, directly, to foment a military coup in Chile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
- ionised 9y agoThink about why that is.
- i_am_nomad 9y agoBecause that’s way easier than taking responsibility for your own mistakes? Based on my observations of human nature, that would be my bet.
- smcl 9y agoThis thread is downvote hell but I'll bite - blaming the US's extremely well known efforts in destabilizing the Middle East and Latin America for unrest, unstable government and stunted economic development in those regions is very fair. The "mistakes" many of these countries made were often along the lines of electing a left-leaning government or simply becoming stable regional power and interrupting Henry Kissinger's bizarre worldview about the balance of power. After the initial few "interventions" the chaos can feed itself for a few decades.
- ionised 9y agoOh the irony.
- CapacitorSet 9y agoWe should really stop blaming the US for backing coups in foreign countries, indeed.
- sctb 9y agoIt looks like you've been using Hacker News mostly against the guidelines. Could you please take a read and starting posting more substantively? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html