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Underlying all of them is the US foreign-policy establishment’s belief that the solution to every political challenge is military intervention or CIA-backed destabilization.
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Every political challenge? Really?
Here are the U.S. military interventions by decade:
80s
Libya
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Lebanon
Grenada
Honduras
Bolivia
Iran
Philippines
Panama
IMPORTANT GEOPOLITICAL EVENT HAPPENED
90s
Panama
Liberia
Iraq (as part of international coalition)
Haiti
Somalia (as part of UN operation)
Yugoslavia (as part of NATO operation)
Zaire
Sudan
Afghanistan
2000s
Macedonia
Afghanistan
Iraq
Haiti
Columbia
Yemen
2010s
Iraq
Afghanistan
Libya (as part of NATO operation)
Yemen
Syria
And not all of these interventions were cynical acts to protect American interests. The intervention in Macedonia, for instance, was an evacuation of Armenian separatists. The air attacks on Libya were intended to safeguard Libyans from the violent suppression by the regime.
See a trend? The U.S. is becoming increasingly isolationist in recent decades. Increasingly reluctant to deploy forces in global hotspots. It is not routinely using the military or CIA coups as a tool of foreign policy. It isn’t 1982 anymore.