"Throughout its history, the U.S. has overthrown governments it didn't like, supported insurgencies to complicate the goals of its adversaries and organized coups to subvert politicians perceived as being hostile to American interests. The list of examples is long: to name just a few, the 1953 coup in Iran, the 1954 coup in Guatemala, the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba and the attempt in 1970 to block Salvador Allende from becoming Chile's president. In the dark"
"Even the 2003 war in Iraq, rightly maligned as one of the biggest U.S. foreign policy catastrophes in history, was a relatively transparent affair. Public debate about whether to invade Iraq was sparked almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks and continued until the military campaign began in March 2003."
U.S. history includes frequent covert interventions: overthrowing governments, supporting insurgencies and organizing coups such as the 1953 coup in Iran, the 1954 coup in Guatemala, the 1961 Bay of Pigs and the 1970 attempt to block Salvador Allende. U.S. wars typically involve public information and debate; the 2003 Iraq war, despite false intelligence and disinformation about Saddam Hussein’s ties to al-Qaida and WMDs, featured prolonged public hearings and congressional scrutiny before the March 2003 invasion. Currently the United States is engaged in confrontational actions in the Western Hemisphere framed as a drug war, focusing pressure on Venezuela and Nicolas Maduro.
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