And because much is 'missing' far too many people are clearly perplexed as to why numerous countries seem to hate America. Well, seventy-four years ago, America - actually misguided American foreign policy - began to create this 'earned' hostility.
Several countries came to distrust America because historically soon after World War II - America did not 'play-nice'...
For sure - America came to the rescue of the United Kingdom and Europe during WWII - however, our elected leadership became just a little too brash as a result. Then - for the following seven decades political propaganda pushed an artificial national image in a complete disguise to U.S. citizens. 
Year after year while WeThePeople/voters were eagerly gobbling up postwar prosperity in the 1950s - taking for granted America still wore a superhero cape - all around the rest of the world that hard won respect and admiration was actually being compromised.
Year after year while WeThePeople/voters were eagerly gobbling up postwar prosperity in the 1950s - taking for granted America still wore a superhero cape - all around the rest of the world that hard won respect and admiration was actually being compromised.
Before the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] there was the Office of Strategic Services [OSS] which, using established military practices took us through WWI and WWII. But, with each new crisis - our 'always look like you're doing something politicians' - tended to create another department agency [eg. Department of Homeland Security after 9/11]. Post WWII there was plenty of additional crisis with Russia shifting in philosophy from ally to threat and China emerging as another communist risk. Regardless, against military advice and against the U.S. Department of State and against FBI input - President Harry Truman established the CIA along with the National Security Council by passing the 1947, National Security Act.
Okay, so the replacement of one government department by another wasn't an action that should have been cause for concern - except...In their zeal to create a truly secret entity President Truman allowed Lawrence Houston, who drafted the Central Intelligence Agency Act [then became its first director] to exempt the new federal body from most limitations on how to use their Federal budget funds. Essentially Houston created a blank-check agency, but not just a blank check on salaries and budget - there was no 'check' in place for disclosure of its organization, its function or its personnel. Every decision and activity was "Classified" and "Confidential" from all oversight or any scrutiny by Congress - and - in too many instances from the President. [eg. 1979 Iran Contra/Nicaragua]
*Syria 1949 - Colonel Adib Shishakli rose to power after a CIA backed coup, but was over thrown four years later...
*Iran 1953 - CIA coup returned the Shah to power, but he was overthrown in a civil revolution in 1979...
*Guatemala 1954 - CIA supported overthrow of the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz who against the economic interests of an American corporation [United Fruit Company] had begun redistribution of farmland to peasants...
*Indonesia 1957 - Dwight Eisenhower, [then America's President] because of skewed CIA information that described "attacks by dissident USSR planes" - ordered the CIA to start a revolution with the goal of a regime change...
*Cuba 1959 - initially Fidel Castro was welcomed to Washington, but was deemed too independent minded...
*Democratic Republic of the Congo - the election of Patrice Lumumba and his acceptance of Soviet support was seen by the CIA as another potential Cuba...
*Brazil 1964 - a CIA backed coup ousted democratically elected President Jopo Goulart...
...I'm not saying that any or all of the leaders from these nations were ousted good guys, but what I am saying is that behind the CIA banner America was starting to be feared as a "corrupt and sinister" aggressor nation. America was no longer seen as a hero riding to the rescue - just the exact opposite. America was seen as a bully and unfortunately the above short list is merely the tip of a global political spear.
...There's more, so much more, like the Vietnam war [1961 to 1975] for which a major number of young American youth [429,000] were drafted to fight they thought, for a just cause. You know, democracy for everyone. However, instead of a military operation elected-personalities got involved making it a political pride issue that caused a waste of lives and millions of dollars.
American leadership continued to make 'homeland less secure' by continuing to meddle in the Middle East,
South America and Africa by pressing sharp elbows into the sides of other country's
leaders for various strategic reasons, but you get the idea...So, between the Vietnam War and domestic flight hijackings in the 1970s and 1980s--the 'hints' were accumulating. But none of those hints became part of the American citizen's awareness beyond their daily six o'clock news. But oh gosh Fellow Travelers, it sure should have been.
Of our 32 policing agencies where was 'intelligence' information prior to the 1993 Trade Center parking garage bombing? Where was any security or intelligence prior to the East Africa Embassy bombings [August 1998] or prior to the attack on our Navy Destroyer USS Cole [October 2000] in a Yemen harbor? Was it arrogant military complacency or critical leadership at the time too distracted by personal scandal in order to manage affairs of state? Both distraction and complacency caused us to underestimate not just who we were dealing with, but why these people felt such intense justification.
Labeling al-Qaeda 'a group of radical terrorists', essentially dismissed Osama bin Laden's motivation which had a root-cause that went back five decades. [This is 'not' justification for any terrorist retaliatory actions, but it explains them.] With 9/11 came a harsh opportunity for American-leadership to learn a huge valuable lesson, but instead of a targeted hunt in Afghanistan then into Pakistan for bin Laden, ego-leadership lost focus and failed again. Though bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan--Pakistan was [on paper] an ally, so out of bounds. But in an attempt to 'show' that our elected leaders were proactive came the inane excuse for invading Iraq [2003] due to an 'engineered' threat for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Every one of our NATO allies questioned us.
I send this out into the void with the sincere hope that it alerts more voters - more WeThePeople - to question more. American citizens can't ever expect to be safe, we can't ever expect global peace or Homeland Security, if we fund activities that seek to disrupt the security of another nation's homeland.
American leadership making international decisions must truly "walk their talk". We look like fools calling out other nations for their civil rights violations when many of our clandestine policies have done the same. America is a nation with laws, but far too many of those laws are ignored by those in positions of authority. And every time there is a political backroom deal or strategy or economic decision that unfairly favors one business over another or one country over another [eg. more Palestine territory taken by Israel] - we're all put at risk - again.
Expecting and insisting on open, State Department ethics in all relations between America and each nation with which we share this planet then THAT form of conduct - and only THAT form of conduct begins to make us safe...
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*Sherrie Todd-Beshore is a mystery suspense novelist and former journalist...
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