Chomsky
Main Goals
National Security Council Memorandum 68 (1950):
It called for a "roll-back strategy" that would "foster the seeds of destruction within the Soviet system," so that we could then negotiate a settlement on our terms "with the Soviet Union (or a successor state or states)."
The Grand Area“伟大区域”包括
包括西半球以及东亚，还有以前英国的殖民地，以及西亚地区。
Two Goals:
1. The first was to secure the far-flung domains of the Grand Area. (the Vietnam War)
2. The second role was to organize a public subsidy for high-technology industry.
Restore the postwar order
Economy:
the Marshall Plan (under which Europe was provided with more than $12 billion in loans and grants between 1948 and 1951, funds used to purchase a third of US exports to Europe in the peak year of 1949).
Politics:
Suppress the antifascist resistance (Italy, Greece, Korean War, Central America...)
The Threat of Third World Nationalism
The planners' basic goals, repeated over and over again, were to prevent such "ultranationalist" regimes from ever taking power -- or if, by some fluke, they did take power, to remove them and to install governments that favor private investment of domestic and foreign capital, production for export and the right to bring profits out of the country.
The point is to crush independent nationalism and popular forces that might bring about meaningful democracy.
The "Rotten Apple Theory" /The Domino Theory
It's the weakest, poorest countries that often arouse the greatest hysteria.
What the US wants is "stability," meaning security for the "upper classes and large foreign enterprises." If that can be achieved with formal democratic devices, OK. If not, the "threat to stability" posed by a good example has to be destroyed before the virus infects others.
The three-sided world
1. a yen-based bloc with Japan (The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere)
2. Europe-based and Germany-dominated major competitive bloc
3. the US-dominated, dollar-based one
Good Neighbor Policy
-the police
-the army
-overthrow the government
all for biz operation, not for human rights/ living standard/ democracy
P26 Nicaragua and America
Three-Fold Attack
1. First, we exerted extreme pressure to compel the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to terminate all projects and assistance.
2. Second, we launched the contra war along with an illegal economic war to terminate what Oxfam rightly called "the threat of a good example."
3. Third, we used diplomatic fakery to crush Nicaragua.
Guatemala & Panama & Dominica Republic
Southeast Asia( Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, India...)
Strategy: What do you do when you have a virus? First you destroy it, then you inoculate potential victims, so that the disease does not spread. That's basically the US strategy in the Third World.
The Gulf War
1. weapons of mass destruction in the region
2. the Israel-Arab conflict
Eastern Europe P40
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