[lbo-talk] Fwd: Afternoon Update: Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan as Leader Flees

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think rather it's an inference from what we know the immense amount of money
poured into the Pentagon and the CIA accomplishes. Read (if you haven't) Tim
Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA."  Weiner is no lefty but an
entirely mainstream longtime NYT reporter, so the stories he tells are all the
more appalling. Read (if you haven't) the history of the SOA. From JFK's
establishment of death squads, we've followed the same methods. Have we been
more restrained in Asia?  --CGE

On 4/7/10 6:29 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> On 4/7/10, C. G. Estabrook<galliher at illinois.edu>  wrote:
>
>> I'll bet, on little direct evidence, that this is the result of>US
>> machinations.
>
> You might be right, but I think it might be revealing that you do think that.
> Doesn't an automatic assumption that the U.S. is involved imply that
> Kyrgystanis are incapable of doing it by themselves?
>
> Not that I exempt myself from this. When the coup happened in Honduras last
> year, I immediately assumed the U.S. was responsible. I even had a
> wicked-witty Facebook status update congratulating Obama on his first Latin
> American coup and how past presidents would tell him the first one is always
> the hardest. But after thinking about it, I think my real assumption was that
> Hondurans are lacking politics.