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American President Woodrow Wilson sent 330 U.S. Marines to Port-au-Prince on July 28, 1915. The specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to “protect American and foreign” interests. However, to avoid public criticism the occupation was labeled as a mission to “re-establish peace and order… [and] has nothing to do with any diplomatic negotiations of the past or the future” as disclosed by Rear Admiral Caperton.[7]
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
reply to post by Wookiep
Maybe when we intervened on behalf of Tibet? Oh wait.................we didnt. Lol.
Actually we did intervene in Tibet. During the 1950s the CIA funded ,supplied and trained an army of former feudal landlords and nobility/lamas. Sending them in from over the border with India. The recently liberated Tibetan serfs, would not support their former oppressors, and after a few years the insurgency failed.
Remember no insurgency/ressistance can be successful without local support.
The whole thing about the dalai lama being a pacifist was a heap of baloney served up, as usual, for gullible western consumption
On November 17, 1915, U.S. Marines captured Fort Riviere, a stronghold of the Cacos rebels.
The Haitian government had been receiving large loans from both American and French banks over the past few decades and was growing increasingly incapable in fulfilling their debt repayment. If an anti-American government prevailed under the leadership of Rosalvo Bobo, there would be no promise of any debt repayment, and the refusal of American investments would have been assured. Within six weeks of the occupation, representatives from the United States controlled Haitian customs houses and administrative institutions such as banks and the national treasury. Through American manipulation, 40% of the national income was used to alleviate the debt repayment to both American and French banks. Despite the large sums due to overseas banks, this economic decision ignored the interests of the majority of the Haitian population and froze the economic growth the country needed. For the next nineteen years, advisers of the United States governed the country, enforced by the United States Marine Corps.
The history of military occupations of Third World countries is that they bring neither democracy nor security. The long U.S. occupation of the Philippines, following a bloody war in which American troops finally subdued the Filipino independence movement, did not lead to democracy, but rather to a succession of dictatorships, ending with Ferdinand Marcos.
The long U.S. occupations of Haiti (1915-1934) and the Dominican Republic (1916-1926) led only to military rule and corruption in both countries.
Originally posted by Wookiep
While you are correct that wars are fought and money is made. I meant with more an NWO style propaganda fueled war/intervention with no other intentions but evil western Zionist ones.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
reply to post by xuenchen
I know, I honestly did try to find an example of "humanitarian" intervention that really was humanitarian, but I was unsuccessful. Lol.
Which kind of begs the question, if we never HAVE actually intervened for humanitarian reasons, and you can go back in history and SEE for sure, that the sales pitch of "humanitarianism" was a complete lie..................why do so many people fall for it over and over again?
And defend the idea so aggressively?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
I've always wondered why he waited so long?
When this all first started [before any other exterior forces were brought to bare] why didn't he just take his 18 Billion from his Swiss bank account and leave and retire abroad? It would have avoided all the killing...
Just pointing out the obvious is all.
edit on 10-4-2011 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
Originally posted by SLAYER69
When this all first started [before any other exterior forces were brought to bare] why didn't he just take his 18 Billion from his Swiss bank account and leave and retire abroad? It would have avoided all the killing...
Because he actually cared about his people and did not want to see Libya taken over by a puppet Corporate democracy that would plunder the country and leave his people impoverished and under the control of religious extremists like the people of the other middle eastern nations we "liberate?"
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Either i'm way behind the news or something doesn't smell right.
Who is this African Union? This is the first i've heard of them. Are they fighting along side of the western coalition?
Establishment
as the OAU
25 May 1963
as the African Union
9 July 2002
The African Union (abbreviated AU in English, and UA in its other official languages) is a union consisting of 53 African states. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established on 9 July 2002,[4] the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The most important decisions of the AU are made by the Assembly of the African Union, a semi-annual meeting of the heads of state and government of its member states. The AU's secretariat, the African Union Commission, is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Suspended members
Eritrea – recalled "its ambassadors to the African Union" on 20 November 2009.[7] This happened after the African Union called on the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions in response to the alleged support of Somali Islamists attempting to topple the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, the internationally recognized government of Somalia (which holds Somalia's seat on the African Union).[8] On 22 December 2009, the Security Council passed UNSCR 1907, which imposed an arms embargo on Eritrea, travel bans on Eritrean leaders, and asset freezes on Eritrean officials. Eritrea strongly criticised the resolution.
Madagascar – suspended after 2009 Malagasy political crisis.[9]
Côte d'Ivoire - suspended after the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis.[10]
Financial institutions African Central Bank – Abuja, Nigeria
African Investment Bank – Tripoli, Libya
African Monetary Fund – Yaounde, Cameroon.
Originally posted by Psyagra
AU PLAN FOR LIBYA COLLAPSES ...
Source Here
I knew it wouldn't last long. Most African politicians couldn't plan a piss-up in a brewery and their word is ... well ... about as good as Nixon's was.
The African Union does not have a good track record in brokering peace deals, having failed recently to end conflicts or disputes in Somalia, Madagascar and Ivory Coast.