Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, delivers a scathing acceptance speech:
"The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.
"Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn't know it."
The truth is starting to seep out.
"The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.
"Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn't know it."
The truth is starting to seep out.
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And, of course, ignore the initial charge of US crimes in the last decades. The US is always fighting for democracy, so any deaths or coups, well, shit happens.
Cold War history?
That the US deliberately exaggerated the threat from the Soviets? Read recently about the start of Vietnam war being a set-up? Or perhaps you mean the ways in which the US overthrew democratically elected govts, installed dictators, or supported despots?
I know my history, mate. You, on the other hand, without fail, are hilariously clueless when it comes to examining the role of the superpower.
Shabby, don't hold back using every second comment to tell us how you really feel.
BTW brains, what's this about:
"one of the worst poets of the modern era"
I don't know about his poetry.
But he's pretty respected as a PLAYWRITE.
Exhibit #1085 in the case for literacy leading to leftyness...
Shabby, you're almost a Professor of Disinformation Theory. If only you could put that narrow minded relentlessness to some good use. The intensity of your phobias could provide the electricity US forces are still unable to generate in Iraq.
Sure thing:
Start with this: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261
then read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/politics/02tonkin.html
echoes of Iraq, anyone?
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