Reply #73: More obfuscation. [View All]

[ronnie624]

The U.S. is planning for a wide array of operations, clandestine and otherwise, against "unfriendly" governments in South America. The Pentagon's own budget proposal says so.

No one here, that I have seen, has claimed that the U.S. is going to invade Venezuela - certainly not anytime soon - although you can be sure such a contingency is a part of the Pentagon's planning. Assigning that claim to those who oppose U.S. imperialism seems dishonest.

As I have said to another rightist on this thread, your whole shtick depends from a false reality: that the U.S. does not have a century long history of intensive and violent intervention in Latin America. In reality, U.S. intervention in this region is enshrined in at least two policy doctrines. Referring to South America as our "backyard" is practically ingrained in U.S. culture. And as I noted above, the Pentagon's budget proposal makes clear the militaristic nature of the U.S. foreign policy establishment's intentions in South America. Excluding such fundamental, overarching facts as a major part of the foundation for forming an opinion on the topic of U.S. involvement in Latin American, makes your statements on the subject seem rather bizarre.