People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Rocks — U.S. Hypocrisy and Election
“So peruse this list of 50 plus interventions and ask yourself these questions: Did U.S. interference make the country more stable, prosperous and democratic? Did U.S. interference lead to peace and a reduction in conflict? I think in the majority of cases the answer would be a resounding, “NO.”
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1941–1952: Japan
1941–1949: Germany
1941–1946: Italy
1944–1946: France
1945–1948: South Korea
1947–1949: Greece
1948: Costa Rica
1949–1953: Albania
1949: Syria
1950–1953: Burma and China
1952: Egypt
1952–1955: Ukraine
1952–1954: Guatemala
1952–1953: Iran
1956–1957: Syria
1957–1959: Indonesia
1959–1963: Iraq
1959–1963: South Vietnam
1959–1962: Cuba
1959: Cambodia
1960–1965: Congo-Leopoldville
1960: Laos
1961: Dominican Republic
1964: Brazil
1965–1967: Indonesia
1970–1979: Cambodia
1970–1973: Chile
1971: Bolivia
1974–1991: Ethiopia
1975–1991: Angola
1975–1999: East Timor
1976: Argentina
1979–1992: Afghanistan
1980–1989: Poland
1981–1982: Chad
1981–1990: Nicaragua
1983: Grenada
1989–1994: Panama
1986–1991: Soviet Union
1991–1996: Iraq
1991: Haiti
1994–1995: Haiti
1996–1997: Zaire
2000: FR Yugoslavia
2001–2021: Afghanistan
2003–2021: Iraq
2004: Ukraine
2005: Kyrgyzstan
2006–2007: Palestinian territories
2005–2009: Syria
2011: Libya
2012–2024: Syria
Let me posit that there is a good reason the United States is disliked and, in some cases, deeply despised. We have been so busy trying to tell others how to live and how to govern themselves that the United States failed to properly govern itself.” …
People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Rocks — U.S. Hypocrisy and Election