@Dmizer,
Dmizer;10066 wrote:Why don't we care?
Who says we don't care, the US and it's population give more money, time and effort to help other countires and there populations then all of the other countries combined. The fact that a majority of this aid is squandered through corruption and graft in the aid recipient's own country is beyond our control. We give alot, then we get criticized when we Americans wish to protect our own interests. We single handily bail out countries struck by natural disasters, and not only do we get no thanks, but we are criticized and accused of imperialism. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
When will these down trodden people of poor countries take matters into their own hands? If you live in a desert then expect to go hungry, you cant grow food in a desert, so move already. If your dictator is stealing all your money then revolt and stop being sheep. I believe Americans did something similiar in the late 1770's. The funny thing about sheep, you can plant new grass seed and water it, you can do your best to nurture the grass to make sure there is enough to go around, but the sheep will still nibble it down to the root, destroying the grass plant. The US is like that grass plant, and the rest of the world are the sheep.
If you are talking about aid that the government gives that usually comes with some very large strings attached, and more often than not it's against the interest of the people in that particular country. The US has been one of if not the biggest supporters of the most oppressive countries in the world. The USA only hates them when they refuse to continue to be their puppet. For example, Saddam and Noriega. These two guys were once on the CIA's payroll and were assisted into power by the US government, via the CIA.
The CIA
America's Premier International Terrorist Organization
CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment.
So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination.
These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator's security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be "communists" [or these days "terrorists"] but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow.
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The CIA: America's Premier International Terrorist Organization
Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot
By Richard Sale
UPI Intelligence Correspondent
From the International Desk
Published 4/10/2003 7:30 PM
Source:
United Press International - News. Analysis. Insight.™ - 100 Years of Journalistic Excellence
U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and
low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past
Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a
bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their
instrument for more than 40 years, according to former
U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.
United Press International has interviewed almost a
dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and
former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together
the following account. The CIA declined to comment on
the report.
While many have thought that Saddam first became
involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start
of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts
with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part
of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with
assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-
Karim Qasim.
In July 1958, Qasim had overthrown the Iraqi monarchy
in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be
identified, described as "a horrible orgy of
bloodshed."
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