The idea of invading Iraq was first urged on him after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, he could not fail to recognize it as a way to have his revenge, complete the job his father had begun,...
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.
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.
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...
Opponents denounced the treaty as an imperialist grab of a distant land that shamed American ideals
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.
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. In
McKinley could not believe that Aguinaldo’s insurgents would be so stupid as to resist the power and benevolence of the United States.
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...
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—...
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...
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.
At a meeting of the National Security Council on March 4, 1953, Eisenhower wondered aloud why it wasn’t possible to get some of the people in these downtrodden countries to like us instead of hating u...
Americans have always been idealists. They want their country to act for pure motives,
The former colony itself becoming colonialist.
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.
What is remarkable about the discussion on October 29, 1963, is that a broad array of top officials voiced doubts about the coup, including JFK himself, without any actual effect on the course of even...
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...