-- At 08:11 AM 10/30/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
-- when the U.S. invades Somalia, they disarm the population
-- when the U.S. moves into South America, as "advisors," they educate
The major objective of the intervention was to arrest Aidid, who whatever his sins may have been, was a hero of the revolutionary war against a Soviet aligned tyrant, and the major figure in the revolution that overthrew socialist tyranny in Somalia. A major tactic in this US intervention was to forcibly close down presses and radio stations that gave politically incorrect news -- which tended to be pro capitalist and anti socialist news. Bush's peculiar foreign policy was in line with some of Clinton's recent foreign interventions, notably his installation of a Marxist dictator in Haiti -- though Haiti is fortunately too corrupt to actually practice Marxism. The dictator of Haiti is merely a Batista, not a Castro. The same was to some extent true of Biarre, the muderous tyrant who Aidid helped overthrow. the secret police in how to create death squads, how to torture suspects, how > to assassinate opposition leaders. (Cf. the CIA manuals, College of the Americas, direct testimony, etc.) You should also recall the "Alliance for Progress", which did so much to advance communism and socialism in South America. It seems that the good progressives in the state department believed that communists were popular because the peasants were eager to participate in Stalin style collectives, so if the US would provide stalinist collectivism for the peasants, that would make the US popular. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG lVJaQLVcGe46yIXnzqbi8PZ5ihIkwl8GKC4l/sNH 4D99by0sIbMOXYgBa6MN6RGQo275zttfL/9WauIGs