| Again, that is clearly not true, we do not, by and large, impose our values. In Haiti, we took steps to stem a refugee invasion, by reinstalling an elected President who had popular confidence. In Grenada, we acted on behalf of a moderate socialist regime, in thwarting the coup d'etat of a militant Communist regime, in order to thwart Cuban regional aspirations. In Panama, we got rid of a dictator who was helping to funnel drugs into the United States, and threatening US assets in the Canal Zone, and reinstalled the last elected President. In Somalia, we entered to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, and found we had to pacify the country to distribute aid. In Bosnia and Yugoslavia, we acted both to prevent genocide, and to forestall further destabilizing refugee flows into Austria and Germany. In Afghanistan, we thwarted Soviet adventurism, in favor of the native population, and, more recently, eliminated a regime harboring anti- American terrorists. You pretend there was no context for the action, as if we wantonly attacked sovereign nations minding their own business...... |
