Why does the U.S. overthrow regimes in other countries?
How does the United States come to arrogate to itself the right and the need to overthrow the governments of countries that have not attacked ours?
One guy who has a theory on that is Stephen Kinzer, the long-time New York Times foreign correspondent. Kinzer has written book-length treatments of some of those overthrows - most recently and notably, the CIA's overthrow of the democratic government of Iran in 1953. That book, titled "All the Shah's Men," gives Kinzer a window onto the potential next foreign policy crisis.
In his 2006 book, "Overthrow," Kinzer flew at a higher altitude and surveyed what he considers to be the 16 cases, starting with the overthrow of the native queen of Hawaii in 1893, in which Washington has played the regime change card.
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One guy who has a theory on that is Stephen Kinzer, the long-time New York Times foreign correspondent. Kinzer has written book-length treatments of some of those overthrows - most recently and notably, the CIA's overthrow of the democratic government of Iran in 1953. That book, titled "All the Shah's Men," gives Kinzer a window onto the potential next foreign policy crisis.
In his 2006 book, "Overthrow," Kinzer flew at a higher altitude and surveyed what he considers to be the 16 cases, starting with the overthrow of the native queen of Hawaii in 1893, in which Washington has played the regime change card.
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