While much has been written since Barack Obama announced his latest crusade on September 10, the US has been waging wars against other countries and peoples since before the Second World War. In 1953, the American CIA and British intelligence staged a coup against the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq in Iran. In 1954, the government of Guatemala was overthrown. Then followed CIA-engineered coups in Vietnam (1963), Indonesia (1966), Chile (1973), Grenada (1983), Nicaragua (1984–1990) and Panama (1989). In-between, tiny Cuba has been subjected to repeated coup attempts as well as assassination attempts on the life of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Instead of relying exclusively on the CIA, the US has also in the last two decades resorted to direct military aggression. Islamic Iran was attacked through Iraq and the confederacy of Arabian regimes in 1980, a war that lasted until 1988. Then it was the turn of Iraq itself, first attacked in 1991 and re-invaded in 2003. Afghanistan was attacked in October 2001; US troops are still there. In recent weeks, the CIA carried out a coup in Ukraine bringing neo-Nazis and fascists to power. The latest US plan is to attack Iraq and Syria under the pretext of fighting the terrorist takfiri outfit that uses the inappropriate name, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) or the Islamic State (IS) for short. The takfiris are a US creation, aided and abetted by its client regimes in the Muslim East. Since 2012, the CIA has been training the takfiris in Jordan before unleashing them against Syria. It takes gall to claim that the US wants to fight them. Direct re-occupation of the Muslim East is underway. It is also important to remember that at least 100 million people have been murdered in numerous US wars since the Second World War.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:00:09 +0000
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