Moral Guardians of The World? I DON'T Think So.

Hey USA, I really like you, don't get me wrong but SERIOUSLY?

Did you know that in the 1970s, the United States was backing 60% dictatorships in Latin America? ...All for economic and political interests.

Lets take the historical situation of Guatemala.

The United Fruit Company (A US company) owned 40% of the land in Guatemala, while majority peasant population had no land at all. Jacob Arbenz is elected president and enforces land reforms and redistributes UNUSED land of the United Fruit Company to poor peasants/ farmers. He also attempts to reduce U.S. corporate presence in Guatemala. Everything seems sane right? No civil wars, everyone is good, non?

Well apparently not. Because this threatens U.S. economic interests, under the cry of "Communism," the United States invade Guatemala, force Arbenz to resign and place a military dictator, Armas, in charge. Armas undoes land reforms and the peasants are again, displaced.

This is followed by a series of civil wars in Guatemala, peaking in the 1980s. That's NOT long ago, and all because the U.S. had to interfere...

Similar events like so (as in U.S. supporting dictators in order to protect U.S. economic interests) occurred in Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba and Chile.

So am I suppose to believe then that during Bush's push for the Iraq war, the president/ United States actually cared about the IRAQI people and that Saddam Hussein was an "evil dictator"? ... because they sure didn't care in the 70s! In fact, US supported Latin American dictatorships and then mostly ignored whatever happened to the people afterward...leaving one big mess behind. It's also suspicious that Iraq has a crap load of oil too. hmmm.

Anyway, second annoyance of the day. Ignorance. Watch below.