US Imperialism, Enemy of the World's People

What has the US accomplished anywhere in the world where they have set their stinking, dirty feet? Nothing but death and destruction. What is left in its wake are destroyed nations and broken people. The countries that the US has destabilized, invaded or otherwise intervened in are listed at the bottom of all international surveys. It usually takes 20 or more years, an entire generation, if they are left alone, for these countries to recover.

Let's take a look region by region.

South America. While the US largely controlled the politics and economies of the South American republic throughout most of the twentieth century democratic, nationalist upsurges were common. When in the late 1960s and 70s left-wing populism began gaining strength US sponsored military dictatorships were imposed on Chile, Brazil, Argentina and most other South American countries with devastating consequences, including the disappearance and likely torture and murder of tens if not hundreds of thousands of political opponents. It was only after the ascent of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and US distractions in the Middle East that the tide began to turn.

Central America and the Caribbean. A similar tale of woe can be recounted going back to the 1950s and extending to the present. The military coup and genocide in Guatemala, the Contra wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, to the more recent coups in Haiti, Honduras and elsewhere have resulted in failed states dominated by corrupt governments in league with drug cartels and criminal gangs, resulting in the mass exodus of the region's youth. Those countries that resisted such as Nicaragua and El Salvador were eventually successful in regaining their sovereignty, but at what cost, unnecessarily imposed by Yanqui Imperialism?

 Southeast Asia. The human toll resulting from the wars in Indochina from the 1950s through to the 1970s was millions of dead and countries laid waste by carpet bombing, the direct results being anarchy in Cambodia and the vast exodus of displaced people from Vietnam in the late 1970s and 1980s. In Indonesia millions were massacred as a result of a CIA supported coup in 1965 and the war against East Timor in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Only now are the scars of US intervention being healed. And to what effect was our intervention other than the destruction of one country after another and the traumatization of an entire generation?

 South Asia. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Need I say more. Our destabilization efforts have led to the blow-back that has enmeshed the US in futile wars and military interventions for decades on end leading to 9/11, the "war on terrorism" and the the waste of trillions of US taxpayer dollars that have not only devastated the countries we target but our own country starved of the resources to rebuild our infrastructure and develop our economy.

The Middle East and North Africa. Give me a break, 'nuff said.

 Oh, I could go on about the destruction of economies in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia. Or the turmoil in Africa, all brought to you and sponsored by US Imperialism, but I think the reader gets the gist of what is being said.

 US Imperialism, the enemy of the world's people.