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"It was in the early days
of the fighting in Vietnam that a Vietcong officer said to his
American prisoner: "You were our heroes after the War. We
read American books and saw American films, and a common phrase
in those days was 'to be as rich and as wise as an American'.
What happened?"
An American might have been
asked something similar by a Guatemalan, an Indonesian or a Cuban
during the ten years previous, or by a Uruguayan, a Chilean or
a Greek in the decade subsequent. The remarkable international
goodwill and credibility enjoyed by the United States at the close
of the Second World War was dissipated country by country, intervention
by intervention."
William Blum
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Killing Hope: US
Interventions in the Third World since World WarII
Rogue State - a
Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Freeing the World to Death - essays
on the american empire
A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present