georgephillip
Diamond Member
Imagine if the events of 9/11/2001 had included bombing the White House, killing the president and imposing a viscous military dictatorship responsible for "disappearing" hundreds of thousands of US citizens?
"I am, of course, referring to what in Latin America is often called 'the first 9/11': September 11, 1973, when the U.S. succeeded in its intensive efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile with a military coup that placed General Pinochets brutal regime in office.
"The goal, in the words of the Nixon administration, was to kill the 'virus' that might encourage all those 'foreigners [who] are out to screw us' to take over their own resources and in other ways to pursue an intolerable policy of independent development.
"In the background was the conclusion of the National Security Council that, if the US could not control Latin America, it could not expect 'to achieve a successful order elsewhere in the world.'
The US can't control the "foreigners (who) are out to screw us" out of our share of their natural resources without bringing the virus we helped inflict on Chile home in ways that make the terror of 9/11/2001 look like Henry Kissinger's assessment of Salvador Allende's suicide: "It was 'nothing of very great consequence.'"
9/11 and the Imperial Mentality | Common Dreams
"I am, of course, referring to what in Latin America is often called 'the first 9/11': September 11, 1973, when the U.S. succeeded in its intensive efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile with a military coup that placed General Pinochets brutal regime in office.
"The goal, in the words of the Nixon administration, was to kill the 'virus' that might encourage all those 'foreigners [who] are out to screw us' to take over their own resources and in other ways to pursue an intolerable policy of independent development.
"In the background was the conclusion of the National Security Council that, if the US could not control Latin America, it could not expect 'to achieve a successful order elsewhere in the world.'
The US can't control the "foreigners (who) are out to screw us" out of our share of their natural resources without bringing the virus we helped inflict on Chile home in ways that make the terror of 9/11/2001 look like Henry Kissinger's assessment of Salvador Allende's suicide: "It was 'nothing of very great consequence.'"
9/11 and the Imperial Mentality | Common Dreams