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You think the US was behaving morally through the 70s, 80s, and 90s?
by mac01021 9y ago
You think the US was behaving morally through the 70s, 80s, and 90s?
- dandare 9y agoOf course not, there are several examples of democratically elected governments overthrown and replaced with brutal dictators, Tuskegee, MKUltra, COINTELPRO, Iran Contra, Dark Alliance. But most of these fuckups were illegal - or at least not officially sanctioned. That changed with 9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Until then the US never publicly sanctioned torture and kidnapping of individuals.
- bshepard 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal
- avar 9y ago> most of these fuckups were illegal > - or at least not officially > sanctioned. To people outside the US that are the subject of these campaigns this amounts to nothing more than obscure inside baseball. Unless something like war crime trials are held, or reparations are paid to the relevant countries it doesn't matter in the least for the end result, or for future such operations whether or not these operations were legal or sanctioned. Nobody involved of any significance ever got charged or convicted, and the US certainly didn't help reinstate the governments that had been overthrown. The only thing that happened post-9/11 was that the official narrative started more closely resembling the realities on the ground.
- dandare 9y agoThat is a good point.
- ASalazarMX 9y agoAs native to one of the countries affected by Manifest destiny, I can assure USA's foreign policy never has had the moral high ground, but it just liked to say it did.
- dlwdlw 9y agoUS cultural echo chamber :/
- ignoramceisblis 9y agoHe's just giving you your daily dose of Republican bashing. Remember who the bad guys are.
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