Deaths In Other Nations Since WW II Due To Us Interventions By James A. Lucas. Deaths In. Other Nations Since. WW II Due To Us Interventions. By James A. Lucas 2. April, 2. 00. 7Countercurrents. MISSION To foster FILIPINO NATIONALISM. Shake the foundations. Seek knowledgeunderstandthink critically about roots of socioeconomicpolitical predicaments in. Avram Noam Chomsky Filadelfia, 7 dicembre 1928 un linguista, filosofo, storico, teorico della comunicazione e anarchico statunitense. Professore emerito di. Deaths In Other Nations Since WW II Due To Us Interventions. By James A. Lucas. April, 2007 Countercurrents. INTRODUCTION. After the catastrophic attacks. Mit dem politischen Schlagwort Schurkenstaaten englisch rogue states bezeichnete die ehemalige USRegierung unter George W. Bush und manche ihrer Verbndeten eine. Rogue States By Noam Chomsky Pdf' title='Rogue States By Noam Chomsky Pdf' />INTRODUCTIONAfter the catastrophic attacks. September 1. 1 2. American psyche. A few people. United States had also been responsible for causing those. Rogue States By Noam Chomsky Pdf' title='Rogue States By Noam Chomsky Pdf' />Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of. But we must continue our. Hopefully. this article will assist in doing that by addressing the question How. September 1. 1ths has the United States caused in other nations since. WWII This theme is developed in this report which contains an. U. S. is considered culpable. The causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the U. S. may have been responsible. In other words they probably would not have taken. U. S. had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military. and economic power of the United States was crucial. This study reveals that U. S. military forces were directly responsible for about 1. Korean and Vietnam Wars and the two Iraq Wars. The. Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while the Vietnam War also includes. Cambodia and Laos. The American public probably. United States is also responsible. In the latter wars. Afghanistan, Angola. Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia. Pakistan and Sudan. But the victims are not just. The remaining deaths were. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U. S. intervention. The overall conclusion reached. United States most likely has been responsible since WWII. To the families and friends. U. S. military action, proxy military forces, the provision of U. S. military. supplies or advisors, or other ways, such as economic pressures applied. They had to make decisions about other things such as. And the pain and anger is. Some authorities estimate that there are as many. Their visible, continued. It is essential that Americans. Someone once observed that the Germans during. WWII chose not to know. We cannot allow history to say. The question posed above was How many. September 1. 1ths has the United States caused in other nations since. WWII The answer is possibly 1. Comments on Gathering. These Numbers. Generally speaking, the much smaller number of Americans who have died. U. S. actions on its adversaries. An accurate count of the. These estimates will. But undoubtedly the total will remain in the millions. The difficulty of gathering. For. several years I heard statements on radio that three million Cambodians. Khmer Rouge. However, in recent. I heard was one million. Another example is that the. Iraq due to sanctions after. U. S. Iraq War was over 1 million, but in more recent years. Often information about wars. Both victorious and defeated. Further, in recent wars involving the United States it was not. Life is cheap for some, especially those who manipulate. To say that it is difficult. Effort was. needed to arrive at the figures of 6six million Jews killed during WWI. That struggle continues. The author can be contacted. VICTIM NATIONSAfghanistan. The U. S. is responsible for. Soviet Union. and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation. The Soviet Union had friendly. Afghanistan, which had a secular government. The Soviets feared that if that government became fundamentalist this. Soviet Union. In 1. Parisian publication Le Novel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski. President Carter, admitted that he had been responsible for. Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which caused the Soviets. In his own words According to the official. CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1. Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on 2. December. 1. 97. 9. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1. President Carter signed the first directive. Soviet regime in Kabul. And. that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I explained. Soviet military. intervention. Brzezinski justified laying. Soviet Union its Vietnam and caused. Soviet Union. Regret what he said. That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect. Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret. The CIA spent 5 to 6 billion. Afghanistan in order to bleed the Soviet. Union. 1,2,3 When that 1. Afghan heroin had captured 6. U. S. market. 4The U. S. has been responsible. Afghanistan many of which resulted. U. S. property on September. Subsequently U. S. Angola. An indigenous armed struggle. Portuguese rule in Angola began in 1. In 1. 97. 7 an Angolan. U. N., although the U. S. was one of. the few nations that opposed this action. In 1. 98. 6 Uncle Sam approved. UNITA, a group that was trying to overthrow the. Even today this struggle, which has involved many nations. U. S. intervention was justified. U. S. public as a reaction to the intervention of 5. Cuban. troops in Angola. However, according to Piero Gleijeses, a history professor. Johns Hopkins University the reverse was true. The Cuban intervention. CIA financed covert invasion via neighboring. Zaire and a drive on the Angolan capital by the U. S. ally, South Africa. Three estimates of deaths range from 3. Argentina See South. America Operation Condor. Bangladesh See Pakistan. Bolivia. Hugo Banzer was the leader. Bolivia in the 1. The U. S. had been disturbed. Indian peasants. Later that action to benefit the poor was reversed. Banzer, who was trained at. U. S. operated School of the Americas in Panama and later at Fort. Hood, Texas, came back from exile frequently to confer with U. S. Air. Force Major Robert Lundin. In 1. 97. 1 he staged a successful coup with. U. S. Air Force radio system. In the first years of his. U. S. as in the previous dozen years together. A few years later the Catholic. Church denounced an army massacre of striking tin workers in 1. Banzer. assisted by information provided by the CIA, was able to target and. His anti clergy strategy, known as. Banzer Plan, was adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships. He has been accused of being responsible for 4. Also see See South. America Operation Condor. Brazil See South America Operation Condor. Cambodia U. S. bombing of Cambodia. Johnson. and Nixon administrations, but when President Nixon openly began bombing. Cambodia it caused major protests. U. S. against the Vietnam War. There is little awareness. Immense damage was done to. S60 Call Recorder on this page. Cambodia, causing refugees and internal displacement. This unstable situation enabled the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot, to assume power. Over the years. we have repeatedly heard about the Khmer Rouges role in the deaths. Cambodia without any acknowledgement being made this. U. S. bombing of that nation. So the U. S. bears responsibility. Khmer Rouge a total of about 2. Even when Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1. CIA was. still supporting the Khmer Rouge. Also see Vietnam. Chad An estimated 4. Chad were killed and as many as 2. Hissen Habre who was brought to power in June, 1. CIA money and arms. He remained in power for eight years. Human Rights Watch claimed. Habre was responsible for thousands of killings. In 2. 00. 1, while. Senegal, he was almost tried for crimes committed by him in. Chad. However, a court there blocked these proceedings. Then human rights. Belgium, because some of Habres. The U. S., in June 2. Belgium that. it risked losing its status as host to NATOs headquarters if. So the result was that. Belgium for atrocities. However, two months later a new law was. Habre. Chile. The CIA intervened in Chiles. In 1. 97. 0 a socialist candidate, Salvador Allende. The Vietnam War Peace History. The Vietnamese people, by and large, viewed American intervention in their country in much the same way as they viewed French colonization, as an unwanted imposition of foreign control. The United States first supported French efforts to recolonize Vietnam after World War II. When the French were defeated, the U. S. imposed a new state in the southern half of the country. U. S. leaders called their handiwork nation building. Most Vietnamese regarded it as imperialism. U. S. leaders approached Vietnam, not on the basis of its own history and experiences, but through the distorted lens of Cold War ideology. They claimed that a government led by Ho Chi Minh, a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party, constituted a threat to the United States and the Free World. This was strange to the Vietnamese, as their revolution for independence was aimed at ending French colonialism, not unlike the American revolution against British colonialism in 1. Indeed, the leader of the Vietnamese revolution, Ho Chi Minh, was inspired by the Declaration of Independence and hoped for U. S. aid.  He was also immensely popular with the people the George Washington of Vietnam and would likely have been elected president had the U. S. allowed democratic national elections to take place. The general consensus among American historians is that the American War in Vietnam was a mistake, although interpretations differ as to what exactly this means. This essay takes the view that the mistake was a product of U. S. global ambitions and misperceptions that developed in the aftermath of World War II and were compounded over time. It probes deeply into the origins and nature of the war, making it a long article for a website about 7. Part IV.  A half century of excellent scholarship on the Vietnam War is drawn together and frequently cited in this essay. The Vietnamese people have a long history of resistance to foreign rule. Before the French arrived in the 1. Chinese kingdoms. Spin Flash Dryer Design Pdf there. Vietnamese tradition reveres the Trng sisters who gave their lives in 4. AD in the first resistance movement against Chinese domination. French Catholic missionaries first arrived around 1. Their efforts to convert the population and gain political influence led to periodic persecution and banishment, which in turn served as pretexts for French military intervention. Like the British, the French rationalized their imperial control over Asian and African peoples as a civilizing mission, a benevolent project to uplift the supposedly inferior races and cultures. One of the ironies of this mission was that many of the colonials who embraced Western ideas of political freedom and independence became leaders of anti imperialist movements seeking to overthrow the colonial regimes. Such was the case with Nguyen Sinh Cung, who later changed his name to Ho Chi Minh, or he who enlightens. Ho was born in a small village in central Vietnam in 1. Franco Vietnamese academy in the city of Hue, and became the foremost leader of the Vietnamese national independence movement. On August 1. 5, 1. Japanese surrender reached Vietnam along with word that Chinese troops would supervise the surrender in the north, and British troops in the South. A few days later, having made certain the Japanese would not interfere, the Viet Minh called for mass rallies in Hanoi and later in Hue and Saigon. Thousands of peasants poured into the cities from the countryside, demonstrating their support for the Viet Minh in huge rallies. On August 3. Emperor Bao Dai, who had served the French and then the Japanese and would live to serve the French once more, presented the imperial seal and sword, symbols of Vietnamese sovereignty, to representatives of the Viet Minh and voluntarily abdicated the throne. What was the U. S. First Indochina War Vietnam was conceptualized within this geopolitical framework. President Truman did not want to lose Vietnam. In February 1. Korean War broke out, the Truman administration substantially increased U. S. aid to the French in Vietnam. Over the next four years, U. S. aid rose from 1. By 1. 95. 4, U. S. Frances war expenditures and the U. S. had more than 3. Vietnam. 3. 5The domino theory drew its lesson from the Munich conference of 1. British officials tried to contain German territorial ambitions with a treaty of nonaggression. The treaty quickly proved worthless as Adolf Hitlers troops marched into Czechoslovakia and Poland. The lesson of history drawn by many U. S. leaders was that only force could stop an aggressive regime, that diplomacy was largely useless. The key to applying this presumed lesson was to brand ones rival a Hitlerian threat, as the U. S. did to the Soviet Union and communists in general after World War II. U. S. intervention in Vietnam was thus justified as a necessary defense against the evil designs of the Soviet Union and its communist agents. In the U. S., Vice President Richard Nixon tested the waters by suggesting on April 1. U. S. might have to intervene. The following day, Democratic Senator Ed Johnson of Colorado declared on the Senate floor, I am against sending American GIs into the mud and muck of Indochina on a blood letting spree to perpetuate colonialism and white mans exploitation in Asia. Thousands of letters and telegrams opposing U. S. intervention arrived at the White House. According to Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska, The mood of the country on April 2. Southeast Asia. 4. On May 7, 1. 95. 4, the French command surrendered. Giap later reflected that the Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu validated a great historic truth, that a colonized and weak people, once it has risen up and is united in the struggle and determined to fight for its independence and peace, has the full power to defeat the strong aggressive army of an imperialist country. The lesson was not lost on other colonized peoples around the world. Nor would the Vietnamese forget this lesson in the next unexpected phase of the struggle. In Geneva, Switzerland, an international conference chaired by Great Britain and the Soviet Union was already underway when word was received on May 8, 1. French had surrendered at Dien Bien Phu. Nine delegations began deliberating on the future of Vietnam. The delegations represented France, Great Britain, the United States, China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Laos, the Viet Minh Democratic Republic of Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh, and the client regime of France State of Vietnam led by Bao Dai. Having failed to restore French rule in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration committed the U. S. to the formation of a separate, non communist nation in the south. To lead the new government, the administration chose Ngo Dinh Diem, a Catholic and anti communist with nationalist credentials. Born in 1. Diem attended the French run School of Public Administration and Law in Hanoi and was appointed governor of the southern province of Binh Thuan in 1. He served briefly as interior minister under Emperor Bao Dai but resigned in 1. For the next ten years, he lived as a private citizen in Hue. During the First Indochina War, Diem organized a Third Force movement of non communist Vietnamese nationalists. He refused a position in Ho Chi Minhs cabinet after the August 1. Viet Minh cadres had killed one of his brothers. Harassed by the Viet Minh thereafter, he left the country in 1.