Reddit reviews Killing Hope U. S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II

I highly recommend this book, to give you an idea of how the US has behaved in other sovereign countries history.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1783601779

> That being the case, one might assume that the American people would notice the pattern of intervention, see through the propaganda and assign blame accordingly. But that never seems to happen and...

The US government has aggressively overthrown the governments of many countries -- democratic and non-democratic alike, as author and former State Dept. historian William Blum has documented.

This behavior obviously flies in the face of the noble writings of the US founding fathers and our claim to respect governments "of the people, for the people and by the people." This is nothing more than raw imperialism on the part of the US.

The above is simply an "inconvenient truth."

My question is this: At what point should the people of the world stop talking about the crimes of "the US government" and when should the people of the planet start blaming the crimes of the US government directly on the American people? Is there a point at which we should blame the population of a country for the crimes of its government?

We often blame Hitler for everything evil act of the Nazis. We gloss over the fact that Hitler was elected into power and the German people went along with the crimes of the Nazis. I'm not saying the US government is as bad as the Nazi regime, but do Americans share in the guilt of the crimes committed by the US government?

>Elliot Abrams

OMG! You aren't kidding! A convicted monster returns for more blood. He helped fund the contras in Nicaragua. I'd invite the propagandists here to read William Blum's 'Killing Hope' so history does not repeat itself. To quote this serious history of the CIA p293...

People caught in these assaults were often tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways. One example, reported by The Guardian of London, suffices. In the words of a survivor of the raid in Jinotega province, which borders on Honduras:

Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their testicles cut off , and their eyes poked out. They were killed by slitting their throats and pulling the tongue out through the slit.

The Guardian, 15 Nov 1984

In November 1984, the Nicaraguan government announced that since 1981 the contras had assassinated 910 state officials and killed 8,000 citizens.

If America dies - the world wins. So simple.

>Tell me, if I were not an armed forces member what would change?

I don't know. Would you be a cop? We love hypotheticals.

>In reality nothing of course, I am not a very important person, but let's assume I were. Let's assume that by me not joining the US military, the US instantly becomes about as militarily powerful as Sweden.

That's a hell of a non sequitur...

>Who wins? Essentially fascist Russia,

Russia and China aren't imperialist countries in even remotely the same way the the US imposes its form of imperialism. The US is a hegemon, there are entire theories devoted to this - and there are non devoted to the idea of Russia, China, or any other country you can name - aside from the US. Why?

Here's a hint. https://s30.postimg.org/91mnxzz0h/wmb.png

Here's a book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-Updated/dp/1783601779/

>Neither your ideology nor mine benefit.

Actually my ideology does benefit from the downfall of the prime predator nation. Communism is against predation.

You won't find better than Killing Hope by William Blum https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783601779/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_u.wUCbZFKPPTR

Of course Sanders is right but the CIA has been helping governments to kill dissidents all around the world since 1945.

Read [Killing Hope] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-since/dp/1783601779) by Robert Blum

> No, deciding that US policy is world domination of both friend and foe is conspiracy theroy

The US has a long documented history of overthrowing the governments of our "allies" -- ask most people from Australia or New Zealand, for example. Or ask Saddam Hussein.

Heck, we even have a history of waging literal terrorist attacks on our allies, e.g. Operation Gladio, push our allies to the political right and to be more militaristic.

We've also overthrown dozens of countries, both democratic and non-democratic alike. Former State Dept. historian William Blum wrote a book on the topic, Killing Hope.

As to the cited quote about us taking over the world, that is one journalists opinion from reading Pentagon documents -- and our actions match his summary very, very well.

> "Our first objective is to prevent the reemergence of a new rival…to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union and southwest Asia." -- US Dept. of Defense Planning Guide, 1992, announcing its plan to dominate the world.