Noriega in Panama and Roldà ³s in Ecuador were both assassinated in a similar fashion by the CIA due to their refusal to accept unquestionably the demands of the American Government to blindly accept orders from Washington.
In 1999, the Serbian people faced an inexorable deluge of bombs in a campaign roguishly described by President Clinton as a humanitarian intervention during which civilian targets were to be religiously avoided. Those targets included hospitals, schools, villages, marketplaces, electrical and heating oil utilities and to emphasize the need to focus only on military targets, rescue workers were bombed 15 minutes after the initial attack while they were trying to rescue the wounded. Allegedly, Serbia was guilty of crimes against humanity in Bosnia and Kosovo although Milosevic, the President of Serbia, was cleared of all charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Then there are Iraq and Afghanistan. The pretext for attacking Iraq vacillated frequently depending on the credibility of the propaganda of the moment while the real purpose was to establish an American-friendly government in Iraq and control their oil resources.
According to the Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, there are between 50 to 100 members of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban are not terrorists but nationalists who along with many other Afghanis are committed to driving foreign troops off their soil and since the Taliban offered at least three times to close down all the terrorist camps in Afghanistan, questions about the legitimacy of America's attack and occupation of Afghanistan are moot. The oil in the CaspianBasin and the necessity of building a pipeline through Afghanistan are more realistic explanations for American policies.
Many more examples could be trotted out to demonstrate that American defense and foreign policy operate on the basis of the doctrine that American interests are to be pursued by any means necessary.
By causing so much pain and suffering to those who oppose or impede the agenda of the U.S., Washington is exponentially magnifying hatred toward itself. It is inevitable that some of this hatred will seek revenge. Paradoxically, in its war against terrorism, the U.S. is increasing terrorism.
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