U.S. 'Interventionist' Foreign Policy – the on-going Lie.

 

Bumbling about today, I came across a fascinating essay by the American author, Joan Didion, titled the West Wing of OZ. In this piece, she describes the massive slaughter of mainly women and children in the San Salvadorian town of El Mozote. The number of fatalities run to as far as over 900 and a low as 300. This incident happened during the early '80s under the Reagan Administration. The massacre occurred less than a decade after the US was defeated in the Vietnam War. US interventionist policy in Latin countries are well documented.

One would argue that El Salvador was one of the most horrific in terms of the number of executions of the indigenous peoples. The US was training and supplying weapons to the then right-wing Salvadorian Army. The El Mozote incident managed to be revealed by a New York Times journalist who was on the ground and submitting stories daily. Soon after the story was published, he was removed from the country and returned to the US and 'let go' by the paper. You see, US interventionist foreign policy has been around for a long time. Particularly since 2001, American bombing and killing in foreign lands have almost become the norm in western society. These crimes against humanity are ironically justified based on humanitarian reasons.

This should be plain to any observer of the events over the last 30 years: the US War machine requires an enemy or several foes to exist. This was blatantly revealed in a US Intelligence report released some days ago. In effect, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Hizballah, Venezuela and, to a certain extent, China had interfered in 2020 US presidential elections. There was no evidence provided, and one would not be surprised that the scribes of the empire, the MSM push this conspiracy theory as the next 9/11 or Pearl Harbour.

It was a wonder to me and quite absurd that the Trump Administration pushed the lie that the CIA puppet, Juan Guido, is the true 'president' of Venezuela. This man, hated by his countryman, attended the last State of the Union address by Donald Trump. What was truly astounding was when Trump announced him, every member of Congress stood up and applauded the puppet. This revealed that the US's duopoly government, democrat and republican, are pro-war and on board with interventionist foreign policy. The war machine is above politics and has a life of its own. Our elected officials' only role is to hand over the trillions to keep this interventionist war machine running.

In the Didion essay mentioned above, she exposes the Washington DC bubble, which only sees a world in terms of the acquisition of resources, wealth, and power. In her book, Political  Fictions, she reveals the insular DC who vomit the same old political rhetoric while ignoring the American people's needs and wishes. To call the regime-change ideologues and politicians in DC 'insular' would be a grand understatement. The US elite in Washington, including their lap-dog scribes live in an alternate reality, far removed from the common working folk's realities.

This is one of the reasons I'm so 'gobsmacked' or sincerely surprised why more people outside this sociopath bubble of wealth, money, and death are not more concerned or angry about this obvious state of affairs.

Those in the media that support interventionism, foreign policy is merely parroting the wishes of those who control them and pay them exorbitant amounts of money to spread lies as truths, pushing death in the name of “democracy” or humanitarianism.

One journalist I read once wrote, paraphrased, that those in government in the US need to keep the population poor, uneducated, and fighting amongst each other to retain power. This makes sense considering how the MSM spews nonsense daily.

To murder the elderly, women, and children for the sake of “democracy.” is a lie, and many need to realize this point.

We should continue to expose our governments' lies.