Glaring failure of American foreign policy' - Kennedy

Eliyahu Tulshinski

January 22, 2024

Let them flip a coin

Frontline News recently documented how the State Department, since the end of World War II, has pressured foreign nations to make concessions to revolutionary leaders. Time after time, it turned out that the revolutionaries supported by the U.S. government quickly created totalitarian dictatorships and massacred and tortured their own citizens.

If the Secretary of State simply flipped a coin (heads we support the current administration, tails we support the rebellion), he would likely choose the less murderous regime about half the time. Not so with the administrations that brought Chairman Mao, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Fidel Castro, among others, to power.

No need for a coin

In contrast, President Ronald Reagan, in choosing which side to support in Grenada, did not require a coin or anything more than the knowledge that the People's Revolutionary Army (PRA) seized power in a coup and established a military Marxist government. Nine days later, 7,000 U.S. troops invaded Grenada, fought PRA soldiers as well as Cuban military advisors, and removed the communists from power.

Government-media propaganda complex

Frontline News documented how the American people have often been persuaded by news media and members of the entertainment industry to believe revolutionaries to be a better alternative for an “oppressed” group than their current, pro-West leaders. At the same time, U.S. officials exerted pressure, behind the scenes, on the ruling leaders to resign, giving the appearance that the leaders were simply unable to hold back the masses demanding revolution.

'Glaring failure of American foreign policy'

President John F. Kennedy summarized the extent of American foreign policy failure in Cuba, which brought communism to the Western Hemisphere:

I want to talk with you tonight about the most glaring failure of American foreign policy today - about a disaster that threatens the security of the whole Western Hemisphere - about a Communist menace that has been permitted to arise under our very noses, only 90 miles from our shores. I am talking about the one friendly island that our own shortsighted policies helped make communism's first Caribbean base: the island of Cuba. . . . [Emphases added.]

Kennedy noted that the revolution was an economic loss as well as a political one:

At the beginning of 1959 U.S. companies owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands - almost all the cattle ranches - 90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions - 80 percent of the utilities - and practically all the oil industry - and supplied two-thirds of Cuba's imports. [Emphases added.]

U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Earl Smith, who was given an order by the State Department to tell Cuban President Fulgencio Batista that the U.S. government supports his resignation and that he should flee to Spain, was more blunt about the government's failure:

Castro could not have seized power in Cuba without the aid of the United States. American government agencies and the United States press played a major role in bringing Castro to power. [Emphasis added.]

Domino effect

The damage done by U.S. officials in helping to bring these dictators to power went beyond the suffering they brought to the people they claimed to liberate. The revolutionaries turned American allies into enemies, and those enemies in turn worked to turn more U.S. allies against the United States.

Latin America

Cuba, under Castro, immediately began destabilizing Central and South America, helping to bring to power the Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and the United Socialist Party in Venezuela.

Africa

South Africa, likewise, has been spreading Marxism in its region of the world ever since Congress helped bring Senior Communist Party Member Nelson Mandela to power by overriding President Ronald Reagan's veto and joining a global boycott of the then pro-West nation. Before Mandela's rule, South Africa was the only nation in the world to have voted in support of the United States, at the UN, 100 percent of the time, according to a 1974 analysis. After Mandela took control, the nation backed groups like the Marxist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola.

Middle East

In the wake of communist-inspired protests, the Shah of Iran was pressured by the Carter administration to resign; the Shah had previously bragged about protecting the West from the Soviets. His resignation brought to power the Soviet-backed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who led the burning of American flags and labeled the United States the "Great Satan." Iran then quickly became the world's “leading state sponsor of terrorism.” That terrorism is designed to force additional Western concessions leading to more power transfers to anti-American revolutionaries. Towards these goals, Iran has embedded itself into Iraq and Syria, taken over southern Yemen, southern Lebanon, and Gaza, through its proxies, the Houthi rebels, Hezbollah, and Hamas, respectively, and disrupted Gulf nations.

Egypt temporarily became a foe of the West when Barack Obama pushed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to resign and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi replaced him. Morsi immediately reversed Egyptian foreign policy, strengthened its ties with Iran and Hamas, its proxy army in Gaza, as well as with Syria, and increased tension with the monarchy in Jordan. Just one year after coming to power, and before succeeding in creating any additional regional revolutions, Morsi was ousted by the Egyptian military which charged him with murder, terrorism, and espionage.

Asia

Those who asked, “Who lost China,” were not only concerned with the tens of millions of Chinese civilians murdered by Chairman Mao but also with the spread of communism that followed. After U.S. officials insisted that pro-West Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek share power with Communists, destroyed critically needed arms that Kai-shek ordered and protected Mao's new Communist regime from an invasion by free Taiwan, Mao was able to spread Communism throughout Asia, from North Korea to Vietnam, Malaysia, Laos, and Cambodia. In the latter, China brought the Khmer Rouge to power which then killed about one-fourth of its population.

Since the communist revolution in Laos in 1975, the nation has been ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, which has a monopoly on state power guaranteed by the constitution the party adopted; its flag is a hammer and sickle on a red background.

Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi, who became the leader of Myanmar after Obama refused to lift sanctions on the nation until various concessions were made to her, announced her candidacy for the presidency on the globalist World Economic Forum's website. While she presided over the government during the mass killing of the Muslim Rohingya minority and strengthened ties with China, her influence on neighboring countries, like that of Morsi, was limited as she was also removed from power by the military.

How to get it right

Americans can spot a “future dictator” by watching to see if they're following the general seven-step process of Marxist wars of national liberation, beginning with the choice of an “oppressed class” to carry out their revolution. We will cover this process in the next installment of our series on revolutionaries, allowing citizens to recognize a fake liberation and oppose U.S. involvement.