Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
The idea of using the Roman Catholic clergy to turn Guatemalans against Arbenz. Catholic priests and bishops in Guatemala, as in other Latin American countries, were closely aligned with the ruling cl...
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are...
The central reason that Bush rejected the ambitious option of long-term engagement in Afghanistan, however, was that his attention was focused elsewhere. He understood the importance of stabilizing Af...
According to historian Ellen Hammer, he (Pres. Kennedy) was, 'shaken and depressed.' to realize that, 'the first Catholic ever to become a Vietnamese chief of state was dead, assassinated as a direct...
We used to be the fucker, one of Anaconda’s lawyers lamented. Now we’re the fuckee.
Oscar-winning triumph. The New York Times called it a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code....
To all of this the CIA agreed. It subcontracted to Pakistan the job of directing the Afghan rebellion.
Most American-sponsored regime change operations have, in the end, weakened rather than strengthened American security.
Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.
Acheson immediately understood the urgency of this message. He summoned Ambassador Franks and told him that the United States resolutely opposed the use of force or the threat of the use of force agai...
Yet Haq was also an outspoken nationalist. His dream was that once the Taliban was overthrown, it would be replaced by a regime free of all outside influence.
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. In
They led to the fall of leaders who embraced American ideals, and the imposition of others who detested everything Americans hold dear.
He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.
If it were possible to control the course of world events by deposing foreign governments, the United States would be unchallenged. It has deposed far more of them than any other modern nation. The st...
On December 4, 1972, President Salvador Allende of Chile told the United Nations General Assembly that his country would no longer tolerate the subordination implied by having more than eighty percent...
From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil fr...
Modern Afghan history shows that an ounce of nation-building prevention will be worth a pound of military-operation cure.
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