{"id":27442,"date":"2017-10-30T16:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27442"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:52:11","slug":"how-america-spreads-global-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27442","title":{"rendered":"How America Spreads Global Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/10\/30\/how-america-spreads-global-chaos\/\">How America Spreads Global Chaos<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The U.S. government may pretend to respect a \u201crules-based\u201d global order, but the only rule Washington seems to follow is \u201cmight makes right\u201d \u2014 and the CIA has long served as a chief instigator and enforcer, writes Nicolas J.S. Davies.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As the recent PBS documentary on the American War in Vietnam acknowledged, few American officials ever believed that the United States could win the war, neither those advising Johnson as he committed hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, nor those advising Nixon as he escalated a brutal aerial bombardment that had already killed millions of people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4466\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bombinginvietnam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4466\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bombinginvietnam-246x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bombinginvietnam-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bombinginvietnam.jpg 493w\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Force F-105s bomb a target in the southern panhandle of North Vietnam on June 14, 1966. (Photo credit: U.S. Air Force)\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As conversations tape-recorded in the White House reveal, and as other writers have documented, the reasons for wading into the Big Muddy, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j3SysxG6yoE\">Pete Seeger satirized it<\/a>, and then pushing on regardless, all came down to \u201ccredibility\u201d: the domestic political credibility of the politicians involved and America\u2019s international credibility as a military power.<\/p>\n<p>Once the CIA went to work in Vietnam to undermine the <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnam.vassar.edu\/documents\/doc2.html\">1954 Geneva Accords<\/a> and the planned reunification of North and South through a free and fair election in 1956, the die was cast.\u00a0The CIA\u2019s support for the repressive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ngo_Dinh_Diem\">Diem regime<\/a> and its successors ensured an ever-escalating war, as the South rose in rebellion, supported by the North. No U.S. president could extricate the U.S. from Vietnam without exposing the limits of what U.S. military force could achieve, betraying widely held national myths and the powerful interests that sustained and profited from them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How America Spreads Global Chaos The U.S. government may pretend to respect a \u201crules-based\u201d global order, but the only rule Washington seems to follow is \u201cmight makes right\u201d \u2014 and the CIA has long served as a chief instigator and enforcer, writes Nicolas J.S. Davies. As the recent PBS documentary on the American War in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4075,135,6963,11789,827,843,1440,862,865,877],"class_list":["post-27442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-chaos","tag-cia","tag-consortium-news","tag-nicolas-j-s-davies","tag-united-states","tag-us-government","tag-vietnam","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442\/revisions\/27443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}