U.S. Wars and Regime Change: Trails of Blood, Chaos, Horror Decimating cultures, Preventing Children’s Future

More than 200 years of U.S. regime change long before Capitol Hill January 6, 2021

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ases and Consequences foreign and domestic

1940s through post-World War II including September 11th through February 12, 2021

1940s

1941: Panama

1941–1952: Japan

1941–1949: Germany

1941–1946: Italy

1944–1946: France

1944–1945: Belgium

1944–1945: Netherlands

1944–1945: Philippines

1945–1955: Austria

1945–1991: The Cold War

1940s

1945–1948: South Korea

1945–1949: China

1947–1949: Greece

1948: Costa Rica

1949–1953: Albania

1949: Syria

1950s

1950-1953: Burma and China

1950–1953: Korea

1952: Egypt

1952–1953: Iran

1953–1958: Cuba

1954: Guatemala

1954: Paraguay

1956–1957: Syria

1957–1959: Indonesia

1958: Lebanon

1959–1963: South Vietnam

1959: Iraq

1959–2000: Cuba

1960s

1960–1965: Congo-Leopoldville

1960: Laos

1961: Dominican Republic

1961–1975: Laos

1961–1964: Brazil

1963: Iraq

1964–1975: Vietnam

1965–1966: Dominican Republic

1965–1967: Indonesia

1967–1975: Cambodia

1970s

1970–1973: Chile

1971: Bolivia

1973: Uruguay

1974–1991: Ethiopia

1975–1991: Angola

1977: Zaire

1978: Zaire

1979–1993: Cambodia

1979–1989: Afghanistan

1980s

1980–1989: Poland

1980–1992: El Salvador

1981–1982: Chad

1981–1990: Nicaragua

1983: Grenada

1989–1994: Panama

1991–present: Post-Cold War

1990s

1991: Iraq

1991: Haiti

1992–1996: Iraq

1994–1995: Haiti

1996–1997: Zaire

1997–1998: Indonesia

2000s

2000: Yugoslavia

2002: Venezuela

2003–2011: Iraq

2006–2007: Palestinian territories

2006–present: Syria

2007: Iran

2009: Honduras

2010s

2011: Libya

2015–present: Yemen

2019–present: Venezuela

 

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romises Broken

“Never to Happen Again” Happened    

After the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the United States has led or otherwise participated in wars and various sovereignty-breaching forms of aggression to “determine” or displace “governance” of many of the world’s countries.

Separate studies have found that during the 1946 through 2000 period, the United States “performed at least 81 overt and covert KNOWN interventions in foreign elections”; and during the Cold War period, the U.S. has “engaged in 64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change.”

[Cold War dates: Cold War (1947–1953); Cold War (1953–1962); Cold War (1962–1979); Cold War (1979–1985); Cold War (1985–1991). Dissolution of the Soviet

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osts (estimates) of War: Summary of latest Findings (Brown University)

Some of the Costs of War Project’s main findings include:

• 800,000 (at least) people have died in direct war violence, including armed forces on all sides of the conflicts, contractors, civilians, journalists, and humanitarian workers (many more deaths, indirectly, because of malnutrition, damaged infrastructure, and environmental degradation)
• 335,000-plus civilians have been killed in direct violence by all parties to these conflicts.
• 7,000+ US soldiers have died in the wars (full count of these deaths among returning veterans injured or fallen ill during deployment)
• 8,000 (approx.) U.S. contractor deaths and injuries (numbers not reported as required by law)
• 21 million people living as war refugees, internally displaced persons (in grossly inadequate conditions) — Afghan, Iraqi, Pakistani, and Syrian people.

• In 80 countries the U.S. Government is conducting and vastly expanding wars (under pretext of “counterterrorism”) across the globe.
• Wars are accompanied by erosions in civil liberties and human rights at home and abroad.
• Human and economic costs of these wars are protracted into decades with some costs, such as the financial costs of US veterans’ care, not peaking until 2020.
• So-called reconstruction funding, post-war and as wars persist, e.g., in Iraq and Afghanistan, “has totaled over $199 billion— most of it used to arm Afghan and Iraqi security forces. Any money for “humanitarian relief” or “civil society rebuilding” money is “lost to fraud, waste, and abuse.”
• $6.4 trillion—excluding future interest on borrowing for the wars (estimated at $8 trillion over 40 years) is the cost estimate for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria alone.
• Ripple effects on the US economy have also been significant— e.g., job loss, interest rate increases.
• Iraq and Afghanistan rank extremely low in global studies of political freedom. Women in Iraq and Afghanistan are excluded from political power, and experience high rates of unemployment and war widowhood.
• In the aftermath of 9/11—though compelling alternatives were and are still available, they were “scarcely considered.”
  

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nspeakably Reckless Disregard for Life   
Top Dog Madness abroad, madness and neglect at home

Madness of Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (b. Marie Jana Korbelová), 20th United States Ambassador to the United Nations in office January 27, 1993 – January 21, 1997 later, 64th United States Secretary of State in office January 23, 1997 – January 20, 2001; presiding head of state William Jefferson Clinton (b. William Jefferson Blythe III).

Asked about the killing of thousands of Iraqi children, Albright says  

“We think the price is worth it”

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 2001 re Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.” — 60 Minutes (5/12/96)

FAIR continued

“It is worth noting that on 60 Minutes, Albright made no attempt to deny the figure given by Stahl — a rough rendering of the preliminary estimate in a 1995 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that 567,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died as a result of the sanctions.

“In general, the response from government officials about the sanctions’ toll has been rather different: a barrage of equivocations, denigration of UN sources and implications that questioners have some ideological axe to grind (Extra!: 3-4/00).…

“Even before the September 11 attacks, bombing of Iraq had dramatically increased.

“In February 2001, two dozen U.S. and British planes attacked Iraqi radar installations, some of them out of the ‘no-fly’ zones. In August and early September, there were at least six more pre-planned attacks to degrade Iraqi air defense.…

“TV’s drive to convict Iraq may have something to do with the fact that Iraq has real targets for bombing campaigns, unlike Afghanistan, which is already in ruins after more than 20 years of United States, USSR, and other foreign meddling.”

 

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ears later Grayzone recalls William Jefferson Blythe III Clinton / Marie Jana Korbelová / Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright Bloodletting Reign of Madness

“Genocidal Sanctions on Iraq”

“In the 1990s, the Clinton administration pressured the U.N. Security Council to impose one of the most brutal sanctions regimes in history on Iraq, ostensibly in order to punish (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein — whom the U.S. had backed throughout the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s — for his 1990 invasion of Kuwait.”

“Slaughter in Rwanda”

“The U.S., with (Madeleine) Albright’s and Bill Clinton’s leadership, pressured the U.N. to withdraw peacekeeping forces from Rwanda during the first two weeks of the 1994 genocide that left hundreds of thousands of people dead.”

“Overseeing NATO war on Yugoslavia”

(Madeleine) Albright’s role in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia has also again come under intense scrutiny. While the U.S. stymied U.N. action against the genocide in Rwanda, it claimed that genocide could possibly take place in Yugoslavia if NATO did not intervene (as it would again do in 2011 in order to justify war in Libya).

Madness of Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State in office January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013; presiding head of state Barack Obama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

Speaking of the October 20, 2011 killing of Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic and “Brotherly Leader” of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Colonel Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist)

Hillary Clinton: “We came, we saw, he died” she joked when given news of the death of Libyan President and military leader Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi.

Answering a further question of whether the killing of the African leader related to her visit to Libya a few days earlier, Hillary Clinton she said “I’m sure it did.”

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aste, Misplaced priorities Abandonment, Neglect

Signed and Sealed Landmark Agreement (Obama 2016) 

No amount enough for Israel

“The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade (2016-2026), the largest such aid package in U.S. history.”

Signed and Sealed (Trump 2020)

“An enormous US spending bill that accompanied the COVID-19 relief package contains many financial and political perks for Israeli government”

U.S. Poverty and Homelessness

• 38.1 million Americans (11.8 percent of the U.S. population) languish in poverty

• 567,715 people cutting across every population sector (every region, family status, gender category, racial/ethnic group) are Homeless in America. On any single night in 2019, seventeen out of every 10,000 people in the United States were homeless.
  

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erhaps reasonable people will conclude that the man elected Forty-Fifth President of the United States—a man lacking in education, experience, knowledge, training, even demonstrated substantive interest in public service—took his lead from entrenched congresses and administrations that preceded him.

These predecessors had laid out a pattern of misrepresentation, dissembling, braggadocio and blaming, and all-round aggression, everywhere, anywhere, anytime, for any manufactured reason, or for no reason.  

Perhaps the difference is in decibels.

The comparison between the 45th U.S. President and, just in recent times, the 42nd through 44th (with the last’s entrenched Senator turned VP) and their revolving door partners comes down to

Predecessors’ sinisterly opaque harmfulness in the world, and
Donald John’s swaggeringly loud harmfulness

 

 

References

United States involvement in Regime Change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

Costs of War Project: “Costs of War” Summary Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs latest update 2020, 2021 https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/summary

FAIR Rahul Mahajan November 1, 2001 “‘We Think the Price Is Worth It’: Media uncurious about (U.S.) Iraq policy’s effects— there or here” https://fair.org/extra/we-think-the-price-is-worth-it/

YouTube (w/ views) “Madeleine Albright - The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq’s nonexistent WMD’s” 379,025-plus views February 9, 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8

Grayzone May 16, 2016 “Protests revive accusations against ‘war criminal’ Madeleine Albright, who defended deaths of 500,000 Iraqi kids” by Ben Norton https://thegrayzone.com/2016/05/16/protests-war-criminal-madeleine-albright-deaths-iraqi-kids/

CBS News by Corbett Daly “Clinton on Qaddafi: ‘We came, we saw, he died’” October 20, 2011 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-on-qaddafi-we-came-we-saw-he-died/

YouTube (w/ views) “Hillary Clinton ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ (Gaddafi)”

647,601 views •December 17, 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM

RealPolitics posted by Tim Hains  “Flashback 2011: Hillary Clinton Laughs About Killing Moammar Gaddafi: ‘We Came, We Saw, He Died!’” June 19, 2015 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/19/flashback_2011_hillary_clinton_laughs_about_killing_moammar_gaddafi_we_came_we_saw_he_died.html

Also https://www.bing.com/search?q=Hillary+Clinton+quote+on+Gaddaft&cvid=ae2f8453d5b445dba849a9e026159d57&pglt=129&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531

Reuters “U.S., Israel sign $38 billion military aid package” by Matt Spetalnick Aerospace and Defense September 14, 2016 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement-idUSKCN11K2CI

Middle East Eye: “US spending bill: Five gifts to Israel” by Ali Harb in Washington December 22, 2020 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-spending-bill-five-gifts-israel

National Alliance to end Homelessness “State of Homelessness: 2020 Edition” National Alliance to end Homelessness 2020 report https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2020/

“As the Alliance publishes this updated version of the State of Homelessness, COVID-19 is creating a health and economic crisis in America and throughout the world.  It is too soon to determine its ultimate impacts.  Thus, this year’s report represents a baseline—the state of homelessness before the crisis began.  It also reflects some early considerations and predictions about the influence of the pandemic on this vulnerable population.”

 

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