The United States government has been supporting brutal regimes around the world for decades. Some of these US backed dictatorships are the same ones currently facing tremendous civil uprisings, like Egypt.
Professor Noam Chomsky, in his brilliant-as-always piece titled It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence writes:
A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires (reluctant) opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds. While not without some merit, the formulation is misleading. The general threat has always been independence. The US and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism.
Chomsky also outlined the US’s underlying methodology for controlling puppet regimes:
The dictators support us … therefore the public can be dismissed … [The dictators] subjects can be ignored – unless they break their chains, and then policy must be adjusted.
The doctrine traces far back and generalizes worldwide, to US home territory as well. In the event of unrest, tactical shifts may be necessary, but always with an eye to reasserting control.
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