Fidel Castro Quotes
The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
Castro, Fidel. "NATO's Fascist War." Cubadebate, 9 Mar. 2011.
Wilson had been successful in getting money and arms to the Muslim Mujahedeen in Afghanistan to fight the Russians who had invaded and occupied the country. But the Russian armed helicopters gave the Russians control of most of the company. Wilson wanted to send Stingers to the Mujahedeen, but the agencies were worried that the missiles might fall into the hands of anti-American radical Muslims. It turned out that the agencies were correct and after the defeat of Russia, many of the Mujahedeen then, buoyed by their great victory over a Superpower, came after the United States and Western nations who were “occupying Islamic land”. The terrorist tactics, that the United States ignored when the Russians were the victims, became the major military and foreign policy problem of America and the West.
In Chile’s first Democratic election, to the chagrin of our Ambassador Korry and others in the U. S. Government, an avowed Socialist, Allende, was chosen by the people. Korry and others then stopped any U. S. Aid and did what they could to have the Allende Administration. However, Henry Kissinger and the CIA did not want to wait for economic sanctions to work. Keeping our Ambassador in the dark, they helped the right wing Chilean Military organize a coup to remove Allende. Allende committed suicide rather than be captured by General Pinochet and other military who commonly tortured political enemies and killing many. The result was an end to socialism, but the cost was tens of thousands of Chileans, murdered, tortured and disappeared by Pinochet and his forces. Pinochet was finally convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The practice became extensively used and the phrase along with it during the William Howard Taft administration where the media popularized it.
sending American troops to Vietnam
This was a classic criticism of Barack Obama—namely that he was an intellectual who could only communicate in a rational, academic, unemotional style and was reluctant to express outrage and publicly chastise other parties or counties.
There were really no American national interests involved in the Civil War in Lebanon. A conservative like Reagan could simply withdraw while if a liberal Democrat did the same thing, he would be castigated by the right for showing weakness and inviting attacks on our diplomats, troops, and citizens all over the world. There were a few ultra conservatives who objected to Reagan’s decision and several, decades later, blamed this “weakness” as the facilitator of subsequent terrorist attacks on our embassies, and even 9-11.
The “help” was a covert CIA 1954 operation that overthrew the government
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz better known internationally as Fidel Castro, was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
