At the end of the war British troops had helped to restore the monarchy but were now under attack from the communists. By 1947, Britain could no longer afford to continue to keep troops in Greece and so they asked for help from the USA. The USA provided money to keep the British troops in Greece In 1947 President Truman outlined the USA’s response in what became known as the Truman Doctrine. “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures .” President Truman 12 March 1947 This policy was designed to stop the spread of communism - it was called containment Policy was driven by a belief in the ‘Domino Theory' – the USA should prevent one country from falling to communism to stop others from following suit. It was believed that it was America's duty to protect democracies from the threat of communism.
If the United States cannot respond to a threat near our own borders, why should Europeans or Asians believe that we're seriously concerned about threats to them? If the Soviets can assume that nothing short of an actual attack on the United States will provoke an American response, which ally, which friend will trust us then? (Reagan, 2012). This statement had to do with his concern over the events that were happening in Central America, which during this time had the Pro Soviet Sandinista government running Nicaragua which in had just ridded itself a previous dictatorship in 1979. This was also problematic because in 1981, Sandinista-supported Marxist guerrillas launched an offensive against the government of El Salvador, which was pro-American (Russell, 2010).
Gar Alperovitz, another revisionist, says that Truman’s main purpose in dropping the bombs was to demonstrate its power in order to intimidate the Russians (127). Even American generals, such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur and Curtis LeMay have stated that the A-bombs were unnecessary (Dower 92), arguing that Japan could have been forced to surrender by conventional means. If these charges are true, than Truman committed a war crime against Japan and its people. However, the historical record shows that in the summer of 1945 Truman was concerned only
Iraq Prison Scandal In the year 2003 The Bush administration justified and led the American people into war with Iraq. The White house reported claims that Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction and that the people of Iraq were living under brutal dictatorship from their leader. Ostensibly the war was to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and eviscerate and remnants of Alqaeda and its affiliates. The war mongers of both sides (democrats and republicans), wanted someone or something to blame for 9/11. After selling their lies and plans for the war to the America people, congress had given President Bush carte blanche to bring justice to those who caused pain and destruction on American soil.
In 1902 Cuba becomes independent with Tomas Estrada Palma but the Platt Amendment keeps the island under US protection and gives the US the right to intervene in Cuban affairs. This caused Cuba to become annoyed. In 1909 Jose Gomez becomes president following elections made by the US. This is soon tarred by corruption. In 1912 the US forces return to Cuba to put down black protests against discrimination.
Thus, they conducted a lobby to convince the American leaders of the superiority of the Panama Canal route over Nicaragua because there were volcanoes there, whereas Panama did not have any volcanoes. In the senate vote taken on June 19, 1902, was 42-34 in favor of Panama. Panama was an isolated province, and its inhabitants often rebelled against the government of Colombia. While the Colombian senate was debating and rejecting the canal treaty with the United States, a group of Panamanians was plotting a revolution. Although Roosevelt did order U.S. Navy ships in the Caribbean and Pacific to sail nearer to Panama, he was in certain ways, manipulated by Bunau-Varilla, who suggested that a revolution, establishing an independent Panama, might be the way to secure the elusive canal treaty and was conspiring with the Panamanians was plotting the revolution.
It is interesting to note that this film almost paralleled to a point, the real life scandal of President Clinton and his threats of military action against Iraq; the film started production before the Lewinsky scandal, but opened up after it happened. To pull of the ‘war without a war’ idea, they turned to Hollywood; more specifically to Hollywood producer Stanley Motss to pull it off. So Motss and crew start planning and executing this fake war; they come up with slogans to support the war and the cause, recruit a singer to come up with a moving theme song (shades of Lee Greenwood? ), and even come up with actors to portray the needed parts. More importantly are the ‘leaks’ that are let out to the media; something that the media is more than willing to run with.
With that in mind, America also had missiles in Turkey targeting the Soviet Union. In The fog of war it says “We (America) lucked out from not having a nuclear war”. In the interview it says “we went eyeball to eyeball and they blinked”, referring to the friction between the United States and the Soviet Union. JFK strongly tried to keep America out of war with the Soviet Union. Kennedy asked how many American causality’s there would be if one of the Soviet Union’s missiles would go off in the United States.
Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, claim that the Iraq War and the overthrow of the dictator may have “helped spawn the so-called Arab Spring movement that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in nations such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya,” although most foreign-policy analysts see no evidence of that. (Nowicki) Another statement made by people who thought the advantages of the Iraq war outweigh its disadvantages is that now America finally have a strong allay other than Israel, and the invasion of Iraq help stabilize the Arabian Peninsula. One counterargument is made by Anthony Cordesman, a national-security analyst at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C, that the war's cost in dollars and lives can't be justified "by saying that we have a strong partner or a meaningful strategic relationship" with Iraq — two main goals that have not been accomplished. (Fineman) And the argument of the invasion of Iraq help stabilize the Arabian Peninsula is not even worth refuting, instead of help stabilize the Arabian Peninsula, the Iraq War destroyed the balance between Iraq and Iran, and now Iran became a major threat of America in the Middle
The True Meaning of Liberation When the United States led an invasion of Iraq in 2003, there was great dissent over whether there was enough justification for the invasion. The president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, had been accused of holding weapons of mass destruction as well as committing several crimes against the people of Iraq. The United States government held that Saddam’s regime was threatening to the world and its own people, and many Americans supportive of the government since 9/11 thought the same. However, there was a wave of protests across western countries condemning the act. These protestors argued that there were not enough reasons to justify an invasion of Iraq.