US and Third World
"... the only way to fully
comprehend U.S. policies toward the third world is to posit ...
"the threat of a good example." Insurgencies in the
third world do not challenge U.S. military security or even, ultimately,
investments by U.S. corporations.... What they represent is the
possibility that emerging nations may demonstrate by example that
the United States may not be the last word in democracy, freedom,
and opportunity. That threat is much greater if weighed from the
perspective of those who see it in their interest to preserve
unchanged the present U.S. economic and political order."
Frances Moore Lappe', Rachel Shuman,
and Kevin Danaher, authors
Books
Articles
"The fundamental assumption that the United States retains
the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any
way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains
an article of faith among the people who guide both political
parties."
Gabriel Kolko, Confronting the
Third World
"We live constantly with the tensions and costs of the
United States' aggressive foreign policy, which not only affects
profoundly the likelihood of war or peace throughout the world
but also imposes monumental constraints on urgently needed social
and economic changes in the Third World today."
Gabriel Kolko, Confronting the
Third World
"A brutally repressive regime was essential to America's
interests ... and Washington had no hesitation in immediately
endorsing the new order and aiding it, revealing again its two-decades-long
preference for dictators and repressive regimes in the hemisphere.
Chile also proved once more that the United States could never
gracefully accept the verdict of democratic politics in any nation,
where anti-Yankee sentiment was overwhelming for fear of seeing
not only its local investments lost but also encouraging anti-United
States economic legislation elsewhere in the hemisphere."
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