Words to ponder..."what-ifs": What if the United States had not blocked an election in Cuba in 1952? Young Fidel Castro and Che Guevara might have decided to fight U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista's corruption through democratic channels and never turned to the Soviets. What if the United States had not put the Shah in power in Iran in 1954? Iran might have become a secular democracy instead of a beacon of anti-American Muslim fundamentalism. What if the United States had permitted Vietnamese elections in 1956 that Eisenhower conceded would have put Ho Chi Minh in power? U.S. forces would not have killed 2 million Vietnamese, and the Vietnamese would not have killed 58,000 Americans. And when Bush argued that Saddam should be overthrown, what if the American people had learned that wars for regime change almost always bring disaster?"
Words to ponder..."what-ifs": What if the United States had not blocked an election in Cuba in 1952? Young Fidel Castro and Che Guevara might have decided to fight U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista's corruption through democratic channels and never turned to the Soviets. What if the United States had not put the Shah in power in Iran in 1954? Iran might have become a secular democracy instead of a beacon of anti-American Muslim fundamentalism. What if the United States had permitted Vietnamese elections in 1956 that Eisenhower conceded would have put Ho Chi Minh in power? U.S. forces would not have killed 2 million Vietnamese, and the Vietnamese would not have killed 58,000 Americans. And when Bush argued that Saddam should be overthrown, what if the American people had learned that wars for regime change almost always bring disaster?"
ReplyDeleteIt's the dang evangelical presidents screwing everything up, ie. Wilson, Clinton, Bush, Bush.
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