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Chile in 1973, Nicarauga in the 1980's, and Haiti in 1991 come to mind. And this is just all after 1968.tell me any incidence in the last 50 years where USA supported a dictatorship against a democratic alternative? There are some monarchy in the world where democracy is still in it's infancy, why USA will turn against them? Does it make any sense to make them democratic forcefully? No, US will allow them to undergo democratic evolution until and unless they act recklessly like Saddam or Gaddafi.
Mosaddegh was far from a communist. Churchill told Eisenhower than Mosaddegh could end up being a communist sympathizer. They both knew he wasn't one at the time.I did not said American had no fault or 100 percent innocent.Removing Mosaddegh was one such fault American did.But you have to put that episode in it's proper context, then you can understand why USA acted in that way.That was the period of intense cold war rivalry and Mosaddegh was suspected to be a Soviet communist sympathizer.So US did an unconventional act by removing him.But Americans now very much regret that toppling .You know, even American are not above geo-political miscalculation.
Right, but the US was responsible for its removal. Honestly, I think that peace is preferable over the rise of a group like ISIS. US being unable to anticipate the sectarian quagmire is a huge intelligence failure that I'm sure what you're saying is incorrect. Having genuine goodwill during an invasion doesn't mean much, as plenty of other invasions are based on what the invader thinks is "genuine good will." Anyway, you can stop trying to sugarcoat the invasion of Iraq, most Americans think it's a mistake now.Saddam's peace was a peace of graveyard.A sectarian time bomb which exploded once Saddam era ruthless suppression was removed.Do you want that kind of peace? USA did not anticipated the sectarian quagmire there that will turn that ugly once everyone come out from darkness.American had genuine goodwill for Iraqi people which gone bad due to some unavoidable and unforeseen circumstances which American could not controlled.They thought Iraq will turn around like Germany or Japan after US occupation following WW2.But they did not realized, middle eastern countries are not like Germany or Japan.
This is inaccurate. North Vietnam never invaded South Vietnam till 1973. By that time the US withdrew. South Vietnam already had strong communist insurgents of their own, many of this was because of the corrupt, incompetent leadership of the South Vietnamese dictatorship. The US didn't actually become involved in Vietnam until the Gulf of Tonkin incident which the US ended up provoking. There's no point in defending this action of the US in SE Asia. Most Americans agree it was a mistake. Especially the bombings of Cambodia. Putting blame on the actions of the native SE Asians is dumb given the long term damages caused by the US. You're understanding on SE Asia's turbulent time is naive.I have said earlier, communist North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam which had defence pact with USA for military help in case North attack.USA did nothing wrong fighting alongside with South Vietnamese to repel communist north Vietnamese attack backed by China and Soviet.But war quickly tuned into a guerilla ambush operating from impenetrable jungle.So American had to turn drastic measures like carpet bombing.Once you are in a war and finding your back on the wall, then only objective paramount to you is to beat back the enemy at any cost.So large number of civilian casualty were committed by all sides.You can blame the warlike tendency of human nature for that.Blaming only US while thinking others were innocent like dove is not helpful.
There's no need because those countries fall under US line of interest. America has its own interests. Iraq didn't. Though the US didn't need to wage war at times. The use of backing coup's was pretty effective too.In which country American did war crime? Or specifically invaded to torment the people of that country? Are American waging war against any normal, democratic, peaceful country around? America waged war against Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Stalinist North Korea, Communist invader North Vietnam,Ruthless dictator Saddam's Iraq, Taliban terrorist held Afghanistan.Have US waged war against countries which are full of natural resource but peaceful? Like Qatar, UAE, Norway, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Canada? Has America grabbed their resource by waging unprovoked war against them? Just because, Saddam's Iraq was rich in oil, so many have made conclusion that 'America wage war for oil'. Where is 'free Iraqi oil for America'now? Iraq is still selling oil in international market according to international price.Why America is not invading other oil rich country one by one?
Though the US certainly has understandable invasions of other countries such as Saddam's Kuwait, and Taliban Afghanistan you're naive about everything else. There are plenty of great things about America but the foreign policy is a mixed bag.
And this is special how? As the famous quote goes, there's no such thing as permanent allies, but permanent interests. Vietnam was America's enemy and now Vietnam sees America as an ally. I don't see this country ever becoming anti-US anytime soon.You were expecting some backbone? heh. They will be anti-US in due time, till that changes back again...its waves crashing on the beach.