OK now we are mixing foreign aid & CIA ops with military campaigns, but they are indeed specific, so I’ll play.
Jihadists in Afganistan against the USSR invasion? Absolutely. The USSR was a superpower that deserved maximum effort to stop its expansionist policy. When we went to Afgahinistan in 2001, we had many friends there to aid us against the taliban and terrorists, BTW.
Saddam we only tepidly “supported” as a bulwark against the ayatollah. We were quite happy to see them fight each other. I was fine with that.
Shah of Iran? Yep. He was preferable to what preceeded and far preferable to what followed. I know a gaggle of Iranians that fled after Jimmuh Carter’s Iranian revloution. You won’t find a more patiotic bunch of Americans. Did it lead to blowback? Perhaps. all actions have counteractions.
Foreign aid? For Israel, yes, but I would want to wean them off of it, but perhaps have a formal military alliance.
Egypt? no. Most foreign aid? No, unless it is vital to our strategic interests.
Assasinating Allende in Chile. Yes. Assasinate Chavez and Castro? yes.
Shah of Iran? Yep. He was preferable to what preceeded and far preferable to what followed. I know a gaggle of Iranians that fled after Jimmuh Carter’s Iranian revloution. You won’t find a more patiotic bunch of Americans. Did it lead to blowback? Perhaps. all actions have counteractions.
Foreign aid? For Israel, yes, but I would want to wean them off of it, but perhaps have a formal military alliance.
Egypt? no. Most foreign aid? No, unless it is vital to our strategic interests.
Assasinating Allende in Chile. Yes. Assasinate Chavez and Castro? yes.
Thanks, I appreciate your honesty. Iff this all expansive world micromangement policy doesn't consitute big government world policy, however, I don't know what does. You apparently don't think it does....so we'll have to disagree.
BTW, Khomeini would have appreciated your support for the Shah back in 1953 since he demonstrated in a CIA "rent a crowd" which supported restoration of the monarchy. Like us, he didn't like the secularist regime then in power.