Bianca Jagger Quotes

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.

An American warship was dispatched to Honduran waters at a politically turbulent time.

In 1980 Russian troops moved into Afghanistan, and President Jimmy Carter imposed an American grain export embargo against Russia:

The people penalized refers to the American companies who can no longer sell to the sanctioned nation while their foreign competitors do not.

In the aftermath of the Tienamen Square massacre of 1989, Congress voted economic sanctions against China:

At the end of WWII there was much tension between Russia and the Anglo-American alliance. This plan was developed but never implemented. See {613195} for Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s description of the invasion idea.

There are some authorities who believe that this quotation was apocryphal as it is not in any of Roosevelt’s official papers. However, many of his remarks were not. This was before the digital age were almost everything a President says is recorded. Most authorities believe it to be an actual quotation, and we have included it with the caution that some take a contrary view. It certainly was what FDR thought about Somoza, and the pragmatism of a close alliance with a useful dictator was typical of Roosevelt who presided over our WWII alliance with Joseph Stalin whose soldiers and civilians bore the great brunt of the German Nazi fighting.

This quotation would not be memorable but for the fact that one of the other “passengers” on that Central Intelligence Agency “train” was Saddam Hussein, who later became the dictator of Iraq and the enemy of the United States. This was a classic example of unintended consequences of covert operations. The Cia covertly put the Baath Party in power in Iran, and some years later, the Iraqi Baath Party became a major enemy of the United States.

This view maintains that a nation must be willing to use force and appear to others that it is willing if it is to get any benefit from soft power. Others disagree.

Poland and most other European Governments and their people were very fearful of a strong Germany with WWII always present in their memories. However, at this time the Conservative German government had very passive policies with respect to the European Community and some German leadership and activism was thought necessary by many leaders of Europe. Germany was one of the strongest economies in Europe and without the WWII legacy of aggression would normally be expected to be more of a European leader.