October 13, 2001

Hubris

Plotting to assassinate world leaders?

President Fidel Castro, Cuba, 1960's

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, 1982

President Muammar Khadaffi, Libya, 1986

Undermining world leaders?

Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, Congo, 1961

President Salvador Allende, Chile, 1973

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, 1991

Vilifying world leaders?

Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran, 1953

Prime Minister Michael Manley, Jamaica, 1976-80

President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua, 1981-90

Supporting dictators?

President Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire, 1965-75

General Suharto, Indonesia, 1965-98

President Augusto Pinochet, Chile, 1973-90

Invading other countries?

Cuba, 1961

Grenada, 1983

Panama, 1989

Bombing other countries?

Libya, 1986

Sudan, 1998

Afghanistan, 1998

Arming both opponents in an ongoing conflict?

Iran and Iraq, 1980-88

Greece and Turkey, 1954 - present

China and Taiwan, 1972 - present

Mining other countries?

Cambodia, early 1970's

Nicaragua (ports), 1983

Afghanistan, 1980-88

Spraying other countries?

Columbia (herbicides), 1990's- present

Iraq (depleted uranium weapons), 1991

Yugoslavia (depleted uranium weapons), 1999

Destroying islands?

Vieques, Puerto Rico -- at present

Diego Garcia, Britain -- at present

Okinawa, Japan -- at present

Without moral outcry in the face of genocidal acts?

Israel against Palestinians, 1948 - present

Turkey against its Kurd minority, 1992 - present

Rwanda -- Hutus against Tutsis, 1994

Silent about the use of chemical weapons?

Japan against China, 1960's

Egypt against Yemen, 1960's

Iraq against Iran, 1982-88

Angry if other countries refuse to import cigarettes?

Taiwan, 1980's

South Korea, 1980's

Thailand, 1990's

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References

Alternative Academic Educational Network, Survey on Physical Damage in Yugoslavia by NATO, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 07/21/99. (Democracy Now, War and Peace Reports, Jeremy Scahill, 07/21/99 and 07/27/99. Audiotape: Pacifica Radio Archive, 3729 Cahuenga Boulevard West, North Hollywood, CA 91604; 1-800-735-0230).

Bennis, Phyllis, Calling the Shots B How Washington dominates To-day=s UN (Olive Branch), 1996.

Blum, William, Killing Hope -- U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II (Common Courage), 1995.

Charny, Israel ( Ed.), Encyclopedia of Genocide, Volumes 1 and 2 (ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA), 1999.

Chomsky, Noam, Deterring Democracy (Hill and Wang), 1991.

Cockburn, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes -- The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (Harper Collins), 1999.

Cole, Leonard, The Eleventh Plague -- The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare (W. H. Freeman), 1997.

Johnson, Chalmers, Blowback B The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, (Owl, Henry Holt, N.Y.), 2000.

Parenti, Michael, To Kill a Nation B The Attack on Yugoslavia (Verso, New York), 2000.

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