They, the innocents, the children, are pounding at our gates desperate for entry -- and freedom from violence, murder and oppression, the ongoing war against humanity engendered by those old hoary ghosts John Foster and Allen Dulles -- and their more recent compatriot Ronald Wilson Reagan, President SixSixSix:
Anyone wanting to know why the United States is hated across much of the world need look no farther than this book. “The Brothers” is a riveting chronicle of government-sanctioned murder, casual elimination of “inconvenient” regimes, relentless prioritization of American corporate interests and cynical arrogance on the part of two men who were once among the most powerful in the world.
John Foster Dulles and his brother, Allen, were scions of the American establishment. Their grandfather John Watson Foster served as secretary of state, as had their uncle Robert Lansing. Both brothers were lawyers, partners in the immensely powerful firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, whose New York offices were for decades an important link between big business and American policy making.
Yes, we are hated ... but we are also seen as a haven, a bastion against the historical unrest and chaos created by those old ghosts of our past.
More, below the fold.
A graphic depiction of the historical exploits of Brothers Dulles lies rolled up in a basement somewhere in Russia;
The great Mexican mural artist Diego Rivera poured his heart into “Glorious Victory” which is what the Dulles Brothers, Allen and John Foster, called the 1954 American overthrow of the democratically-elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz. Rivera’s wife was very sick at the time of the overthrow, but insisted Diego push her in a wheelchair so she could join the protests against U.S. interference in Latin America. She died eleven days later.
Allen Dulles was director of the CIA and John Foster was Secretary of State at the time. They had previously worked for the law firm that represented the United Fruit Company, which was offended by Arbenz’ plan for land reform in the original Banana Republic. The Dulles Brothers also held stock in United Fruit.
Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a double biography of the Dulles Brothers, wanted to see the Rivera mural, which depicts the brothers shaking hands with the dictator they installed over the dead bodies of peasants. He tracked the painting to Russia, where it sits in a basement, now just an unstretched canvas rolled up in a corner.
He suggests that the mural be purchased from Russia and hung in the Dulles airport in Washington, D.C., because how will we ever learn from history if it ends up buried down in the corner of a basement?
On how things might have been different had the Dulles brothers not intervened:
It's quite possible, even likely, had the Dulles brothers not been [in Vietnam] or had acted differently, there never would've been an American involvement in Vietnam at the cost of a million lives and more than 50,000 Americans. Guatemala wouldn't have suffered 200,000 dead over a period of 35 years in the civil war that broke out after they intervened in Guatemala and destroyed democracy there. Iran fell under royal dictatorship and then more than 30 years of fundamentalist religious rule as a result of the Dulles brothers' operations. Had they not intervened in Iran we might've had a thriving democracy in the heart of the Muslim Middle East.
But, enough on the evils of the Dulles Boys; Ronald Reagan in Latin America:
Iran-contra debacle was only one of Reagan’s major flaws regarding Latin America.
The Reagan White House showed far more interest in narrowly defined national security concerns than authentic democratization, social justice and anti-poverty efforts.
His strategy towards Panama, Grenada, Argentina, El Salvador and the war on drugs all revealed major shortcomings.
Reagan’s legacy is now being whitewashed and his role in one of the most scandalous foreign policy initiatives in recent years—the Iran contra arms-for-aid swap—is minimized, if recalled at all.
The former president’s hemispheric foreign policy initiatives were characterized by simple-minded formulations, unprovoked aggression and unflinching embrace of some of Latin America’s most unsavory dictators, all in the name of anti-Communism.
The tradition of amoral and ill-conceived international blunders continues to be carried out by Reagan’s longtime ideological protégé, President George W. Bush.
One can respect Reagan’s life and his patriotism, but one can’t easily forgive and forget the tens of thousands of innocent victims who lost their lives because of his extremism when it came to the fight against Latin American membership in the so-called evil empire.
John Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles. Ronald Wilson Reagan, Presdent SixSixSix.
Thanks a lot, boys!