[Marxism] Obama whitewashes foreign policy

[Nasir Khan <naskha3@xxxxxxxxx>]

By Teo Ballve | The Advoacte,  June 19, 2009

President Obama is trying to whitewash the history of U.S. foreign policy.

In two major speeches in the last month, he has spun a fairy tale.

At the National Archives on May 21, Obama claimed, “From Europe to the
Pacific, we’ve been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and
replaced tyranny with the rule of law.” And in Cairo, Egypt, just two
weeks later, Obama said, “America is not the crude stereotype of a
self-interested empire. … America does not presume to know what is
best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of
a peaceful election.”

These assertions ring entirely hollow in Latin America, where the
reverse is true: Washington propped up tyrannical leaders and
bankrolled murderous armies. Under the iron fist of these U.S.-backed
regimes, the region’s torture chambers rang with the cries of innocent
victims.

As Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza ruthlessly ruled his country
like a colonial coffee plantation, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
reportedly said of his ally: “Somoza may be a son of a b—-, but he’s
our son of a b—-.”

 Full article: 
http://sudhan.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/obama-whitewashes-foreign-policy/

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