Americans believe in a democratic Parliament, and therefore changed its foreign policy under Reagen.
"Project democracy" was created to enforce American democracy around the world.
however, they pushed a form of American democracy, following the American definition....
this posses the problem of contradiction views of freedom.
and the first target of these policies was Nicaragua.
A country that was seized by revolution, but then enforced democracy, held elections, spread power for increase equality etc.
however American believed this to be a sham. They began to threaten Nicaragua.
"Perception management" was created. Telling Americans they were under threat, resulting in the people accepting more offencive polices.
the best example of this is "Weapons of mass destruction", bet that sounds familiar.
what the Reagan administration ended up doing was funding a private army to overthrow the Nicaraguans.
to fund this, the Reagan government agreed to sell weapons to the Iranians, and in return the Iranians would release all hostages.
The proceeds from these sales then paid for the private army.
The ironic thing is that the American democracy, the thing the Americans were trying to spread, was corrupted by its own followers.
Monday, August 11, 2008
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