Tag: Foreign Policy
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Downing Street Memo – Fixing the Facts on Iraq!
United Kingdom, Matthew Rycroft, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Minutes of Discussion, S 195/02, July 23, 2002 SOURCE: Printed in The Sunday Times, May 1, 2005 These notes offer insight into the attitude of the Bush administration toward regime change, the UN route, and propaganda efforts. The document contains the now-notorious statement in…
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NSC-124: US Objectives in Southeast Asia
Hi! Here’s an interesting document from the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume XII, Part 1. NSC-124 – Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary, Top Secret, Washington, June 25, 1952 Statement of Policy by the National Security Council on United States Objectives and Courses…
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Cloaking the U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic with Legitimacy
Hi, In my spare time, I like to skim U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian site and you should too. Our leaders have always been very open about their intentions. There’s not need for conspiracy theories when there’s a written record for all to read. I do find it very strange that the U.S. has…
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Timeline of U.S. Presidential Foreign Policy Doctrines
Hi, I’d like to review U.S. presidential doctrines throughout history. I think it important to understand just how consistent and unbashfully public American leaders have been about their quest for empire. Monroe Doctrine (1823) The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823. The statement articulated United States’ policy on the…
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How the U.S. Supported the Argentinian “Dirty War”
The Argentinian Dirty War is the name used by the military junta of Argentina for the period of United States-backed state terrorism in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military security forces and right-wing death squads hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with…
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The Cruelty Behind the Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. Here are the…
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Alfred Mahan on National Self-Interests
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Admiral, naval strategist, and historian who’s books, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) and The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (1892), made him world-famous and perhaps the most influential American author of the nineteenth century. In 1893, during the…
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Charles Hughes on National Interest and the Monroe Doctrine
Charles E. Hughes was an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. This very influential American statesman helped install into the State…
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Heilbroner: Capitalism vs. Communism
Hi. I came across this article written in 1967 by Robert L. Heilbroner and figured I would share it. It’s a bit outdated, but it has some interesting thoughts. You tell me? The Revolution of Rising Expectations: Rhetoric and Reality Is the United States fundamentally opposed to economic development? This question is outrageous. … There…