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The US has no interest in undermining the BAP, do you think they rather the Islamists get in power? Criticising and sanctioning brutal repression, and advocatin
by simonh 3y ago
The US has no interest in undermining the BAP, do you think they rather the Islamists get in power? Criticising and sanctioning brutal repression, and advocating democratic standards won’t undermine the BAP. As pointed out up thread, they’re very popular anyway.
So one reading of the US actions is just to try and push the BAP into cooling down the political temperature, and not exploit their dominant position so much that it incites further violent backlashes.
- seatac76 3y agoI agree with you that the US probably doesn’t have an interest in undermining BAP, but cmon now there is ample precedent for US supporting Islamists and other unsavory groups. e.g Afghanistan, Lat Am and in situations like that US interests take precedence over the future of the said state or free and fair elections.
- simonh 3y agoThat’s basically arguing that the US has done bad things before, therefore this thing they are doing must be bad.
- rayiner 3y agoIt’s an error to assume Americans act according to their rational self interest rather than ideological fancy.
- Regnore 3y agoIt’s an error to assume that Americans acting in accordance to their rational self interest isn’t their ideological fancy.
- rayiner 3y agoThat presupposes that Americans are just catastrophically bad at recognizing what’s in their self interest—because so much of it’s foreign policy is bad for America—which seems like an unreasonable assumption.