In 1929, the Rose Bowl pitted the University of California against Georgia Tech. Cal’s star center and linebacker, Roy Riegels, recovered a Georgia Tech fumble but unwittingly galloped 60 yards in the wrong direction toward his own goal line. The blunder set the stage for an 8-7 Cal defeat.
America’s foreign policy is similarly earmarked by wrong-way runs in promoting democracy.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905-1906), Reason in Common Sense http://ift.tt/1rUWAJ6)
America’s foreign policy is similarly earmarked by wrong-way runs in promoting democracy.
- In 1953, we orchestrated the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossedeq
- In 1954, we engineered the toppling of Guatemala’s democratically elected Jacabo Arbenz
- In 1963, we were complicit in a military coup in South Vietnam and the murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
- In 1965, we intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic to thwart the political return of Juan Bosch,
- In 1970, we immediately recognized and supported Cambodia’s Lol Nol after his military coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
- In 1973, we collaborated in the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905-1906), Reason in Common Sense http://ift.tt/1rUWAJ6)
Wrong way democracy. B. Fein, TWT
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