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May 07 2008
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• minnpost.com
Why does the U.S. overthrow regimes in other countries?
Eric Black has been writing intelligent, thoughtful commentary for at least thirty years.
"How does the United States come to arrogate to itself the right and the need to overthrow the governments of countries that have not attacked ours?
"One guy who has a theory on that is Stephen Kinzer, the long-time New York Times foreign correspondent. Kinzer has written book-length treatments of some of those overthrows – most recently and notably, the CIA's overthrow of the democratic government of Iran in 1953."
Kinzer states, "One of the things that ties, not all of them but many of them together, is what I detect as a three-part process of motivation. Why do we do it? Usually, it's this three-phase explanation."
And, you'll have to read the rest of the article for the full explanation. Be sure and read the comment at the end, also... It's hard not to see the American Public as pretty dumb... I always get called elitist, when I say that, but I am certainly part of the American Public anyway... hopefully at a higher end of the curve, but that's no comfort.