Establishing A Free World

Establishing a Free World

During the Cold War the United States was in high alert. With the Cuban Missile Crisis adding to the mix the U.S. couldn’t trust anyone, even its own neighbors. With this in mind the United States started investigating the south to determine the “domino theory” doesn’t impact the neighboring states. However, what is the U.S. historically known to do when there is an ultimate threat to the nation? They invade it some sort of way and deactivate the threats. 

Throughout the Cold War the U.S. has invaded: Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, and Nicaragua. During those years the U.S’s believed at the time that any nation that seemed to be turning “Red. How? Does one ask? They intervened in many notorious rebellion that occurred during those time periods. The most notorious manipulation that the U.S. has applied is the National Security Doctrine. Ultimately, this doctrine was used to suppress and destroy the Marxist beliefs that have arisen throughout the world. Through this doctrine the creation of Alliance of Progress was soon created which allowed the United States military to essentially conduct Marshal Law on any Latin country that they seemed to think was beginning to turn “Red”. JFK was quoted stating “Those who make reform impossible will make the revolution inevitable”. (Born in Blood and Fire, pg. 187)

Unfortunately, this doctrine did not work, so the United States governments created other strategic ways to infiltrate neighboring countries. The CIA was were infamous for conducting many heinous crimes that could be considered against the Geneva Convention. These crimes included secret kidnappings of individuals who were leaders in the rebellious groups, torture, raping, and murder as tactics used to create a “Free World”. The CIA has also been linked to the many guerilla organizations that have taken out leaders of that nation and they have installed a leader that they believe they can control.

A great example of the United States installing a leader they believe they can control is Saddam Hussain. During the 1970’s Iran was extremely close to expanding the theory of communism to the Iraqi people. In which Saddam Hussein began to create a chemical weapon similar to mustard gas and began using it on Iran. To stop the Iranians from infiltrating the Iraqi borders. However, the CIA was fully aware of these actions that Saddam was causing and did not do anything about it. (http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/) They even gave Iraqi classified information that the United States held to help defeat the Iranians. This information include satellite photographs, and high grade military weapons. They believed that with Sadam’s help the Iranians would cease fire. Evidentially, after all the knowledge the United States held on Saddam Hussein they have left him in power until 2004 when the U.S. invaded Iraq one last time.

Furthermore, it is evident that although the United States at the time can be labelled as “Terrorist “. It is believed that the impact communism had on the nation justified the actions the nation had to take. Unfortunately, though these actions that the nation took during these times are still being shown today. For example the attacks that took place on 9/11.