{"id":43819,"date":"2019-02-15T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43819"},"modified":"2019-02-15T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:11:12","slug":"the-deep-hurt-lessons-from-american-coups%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43819","title":{"rendered":"The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As the world watches aghast at another US and allies\u2019 attempt to engineer a coup in Venezuela, I would like to offer a few insights from Stephen Kinzer\u2019 provocative chapter, \u201cThe deep hurt,\u201d (pp. 227-250) in his book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of the American Empire <\/em><\/a>(2017). This remarkable text carries some hope and lessons for all of us. It tells the story of the great conflict around the turn of 20th<\/sup>century about the role that the US might play in either dominating the world or building a cosmopolitan democracy where all people feel secure that they reside in one country, the earth. Indeed, Kinzer states: \u201cAnti-imperialists decisively influenced American history by helping to ensure that the first burst of American annexation would be the last\u201d (p. 228).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even swash-buckling Teddy Roosevelt was influenced, losing his zest for the idea of conquest.  When he charged into the White House he held two views simultaneously, intervene to help other people, without oppressing them. Kinzer thinks that this dichotomy \u201ctorments our national psyche\u201d (p. 229). In the early parts of the book Kinzer sets out the anti-imperialist (Mark Twain) and pro-imperialist visions (Henry Cabot Lodge). These speeches are worth gathering round for reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the following hundred years much of what the anti-imperialists predicted has come to pass. The United States has become an \u201cactively interventionist power. It has projected military or covert power into dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica\u201d(ibid.). \u00a0George Frisbie Hoar was right, Kinzer points out, when he \u201cwarned that intervening in other lands would turn the United States into a \u2018vulgar, commonplace empire founded upon physical force\u201d\u201d (ibid.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups As the world watches aghast at another US and allies\u2019 attempt to engineer a coup in Venezuela, I would like to offer a few insights from Stephen Kinzer\u2019 provocative chapter, \u201cThe deep hurt,\u201d (pp. 227-250) in his book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of […]<\/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":[5493,2321,259,21903,21417,24412,827,851],"class_list":["post-43819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-coup","tag-empire","tag-michael-welton","tag-stephen-kinzer","tag-the-deep-hurt","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819","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=43819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43820,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819\/revisions\/43820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}