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By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted December 08, 2010 at 09:46:58
It's hard to argue that stamping out Bolshevism wasn't a chief concern of allied intervention in the Russian Revolution, especially given Churchill's comments at the time, regarding the intervention "Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle". Between Canada, Britain, France and America there were nearly 70 000 troops, with many others such as the Italians, Czechs and Japanese, with their own various anti-soviet goals.
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/C...
As for American actions since WWII, the fear of communism can only go so far to justify the support of murderous regimes. Is North Korea horrible? Certainly. Was (is) it wrong for Russian and China to support the dictatorship? Clearly. But those principles apply to us, as well. America's list is very long, and very horrific. Many of these dictators killed tens or hundreds of thousands, even millions, and rose to power with the direct aid of the American government and major American corporations (like United Fruit). This spanned across Latin America (Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Cuba, etc), Asia (Indonesia, Cambodia, South Korea, Pakistan etc), Africa (Angola, Algeria etc), Europe (Franco in Spain) and the Middle East (virtually everywhere). Nothing did more to feed the rise of forces like Radical Islam and Communism than the carnage this inflicted.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terror...
If they were fighting for "freedom", why support avowed Fascists like Franco or Pinochet? If they were fighting against communism, why support the Khmer Rouge against the far more moderate Vietnamese communists who'd ended their regime and put an end to the killing fields? If radical Islam is dangerous, why fight against moderate secular governments in nations like Iran, Egypt or Afghanistan? Because it was all far better for US business and military interests, that's why. Suharto may have invaded East Timor and killed off a third of the population. He may have even killed over a million people in his own brutal, CIA-backed rise to power. But once he began his decades-long reign, he turned his country into one big plantation, sweatshop and strip mine, which has been fantastically profitable for the companies who do business there.
We don't have any direct influence on the Chinese government. Hopefully someday the people of China will. We do have influence on ours, and we can investigate and object to these crimes. If we choose not to, and instead blindly accept the rationales of those in power, what makes us any better? Before we go fighting wars and levelling countries to prevent the spread of WMDs, how about we stop giving them away? The American government sold chemical and biological weapons to Iraq. The Canadian government, through AECL, played a large role in nations like Pakistan and China becoming nuclear powers. Before we go trying to fix the world, we need to take a long hard look at ourselves.
"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford
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