Eisenhower overthrew the democratically elected government in Guatemala and similar regime changes were made in Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, El Salvador, Cuba etc. from eighteen forties to the present. America got involved in Asia first by taking over Philippines and Guam as colonies from Spain. The Philippines wanted independence and the US army massacred over hundred thousand men, women and children. After Iran in 1953, Eisenhower supported the French when they tried to reclaim Vietnam after WW2. When the French lost at Dien Bien Phu, during the Geneva conference Ho Chi Minh consented to a referendum election after an armistice. The US reneged on the accords and supported a Christian leader named Diem as the ruler of Buddhist South Vietnam. He was corrupt and unpopular and was assassinated with CIA help, and replaced by equally corrupt and incompetent leaders. Eisenhower sent military advises to Vietnam. Kennedy, his successor sent more and Johnson ultimately sent 500,000 troops. They couldn%u2019t win the war just as in Afghanistan and Iraq today. Nixon carpet-bombed Laos and Cambodia and widened the war but couldn%u2019t win it. He didn%u2019t want to lose the war so he kept it going just as Bush is doing at present in Iraq. It is to get out honorably out of Vietnam that Nixon went hat in hand to China with the help of Pakistan.
RE:America - only money and self interest
by sri on Sep 08, 2007 08:10 PM Permalink
What about all that china has done in Tibet and the thousands if not more that they have butchered there. What about their ruthlesness in Xinjiang? What about their treachery against India. What about their support of regimes in Sudan over Darfur, of Myanmar, of Pakistan and so on and so forth. Overall, the US is reliable, shares great ideas with India and is constantly learning.
RE:America - only money and self interest
by nickel biswas on Sep 08, 2007 08:12 PM Permalink
Yeah. America - only money and self interest. India - only NO money and fight for other's interests (i.e. Iraq, Iran, China etc.)
