In the mid-1950s Winston Churchill advised his American friends to recognize that Ho Chi Minh was unbeatable, accept his victory, and try to make the best of it. This the Dulles brothers could not do—...
It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that...
Countries that have the power to interfere in foreign lands almost always do so.
The Saudis were already deeply involved in Pakistan. They had sent Zia large sums of money to open religious schools catering to both impoverished Pakistanis and Afghan refugees. To ensure that these...
She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest had long ago done its work. Trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home; multitudes wh...
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. In
Exceptionalism—the view that the United States has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther, and lives on a higher moral plane than other nations—was to them not a platitude, but...
President Johnson soon Americanized the war that resulted in the death of a generation.
Opponents denounced the treaty as an imperialist grab of a distant land that shamed American ideals
Caught up in the all-encompassing idea of their country’s manifest destiny, they convinced themselves that American influence abroad could only be positive and that anyone who rejected it must be bad.
McKinley could not believe that Aguinaldo’s insurgents would be so stupid as to resist the power and benevolence of the United States.
The former colony itself becoming colonialist.
From the vantage point of history, however, it is clear that most of these operations actually weakened American security. They cast whole regions of the world into upheaval, creating whirlpools of in...
Nixon pressed him relentlessly, and also because the anti-Allende project fit perfectly with his view of the world and of America’s place in it.
Because he had such an ingrained and perhaps exaggerated faith in democracy, he did nothing to repress it.
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.
When her brother turned Pearl Harbor over to the Americans in 1887, she wrote in her diary that it was a day of infamy in Hawaiian history.
Weyler, the brute, the devastator of haciendas, and the outrager of women . . . is pitiless, cold, an exterminator of men, ran one such account. There is nothing to prevent his carnal, animal brain fr...
Americans have always been idealists. They want their country to act for pure motives,
Each of these four coups was launched against a government that was reasonably democratic (with the arguable exception of South Vietnam), and each ultimately led to the installation of a repressive di...
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