Having
backed a right-wing coup in the Ukraine and right-wing terror groups
disguised as “moderate rebels” in Syria, U.S. leaders now
confront rising right-wing terror at home. They duly condemn it, but
seem blind both to their own hypocrisy and to the domestic
reverberations of their cynical foreign policies.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
4 - Glorifying foreign extremists not without consequences
The
reason U.S. politicians consistently support fascism and right-wing
extremism abroad, but not in the U.S., is clear. While supporting
such groups domestically is a surefire way to ruin one’s political
career, supporting these same types of groups in far-off places is a
politically safe tool for projecting the U.S.’ geopolitical will
abroad.
As
former CIA Officer John Stockwell noted in his book, The Praetorian
Guard, “stirring up deadly ethnic and racial strife has been a
standard technique used by the CIA” for decades in covert
destabilization operations.
But
the glorification and support of right-wing violence abroad is not
without its consequences. Legitimizing such ideologies – whether in
Ukraine, Syria, or elsewhere around the globe – serves to justify
them here at home.
While
many on both the left and right cite Trump’s election as having
“emboldened” these groups domestically, decades of U.S. foreign
policy have in fact done much of the emboldening.
Though
many of the aforementioned U.S. politicians would disagree, fascism
and right-wing extremism do not suddenly shift from being acceptable
to reprehensible once they cross the U.S. Border.
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