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Patterns of Intervention Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 150 particular, “it hasn’t achieved what it set out to do, topple the government of Nicaragua.” 24 As Moore observes in his defense of the legality of the Reagan policy, such objectives are contrary to “the law of the United States” that is “binding on both the executive and legislative branches,” not only the general provisions of international law but also such specific constraints as the Boland Amendment, in force until August 1985. 25 There can be little doubt that these are and have been the objectives throughout— though it would suffice to cause sufficient misery and destruction so as to keep the “infectious virus” from spreading through the dread demonstration effect. It is, however, important to stress that contempt for law and the regular resort to violence to protect US interests are a central theme of American history, contrary to the fantasies spun by those bemused by a “mysterious collective amnesia.” An accurate account was given by Major Smedley Butler, who commanded the Marine landing in Nicaragua in 1909 and again in 1912, and also fought in Mexico and Haiti, where he ran the fraudulent 1918 election that ratified the US occupation under Marine guns and the corvée system of slave labor, “an instrument for oppressing and torturing the Haitian people . . . and apparently some times for no other purpose than to provide [the Marine-imposed Haitian gendarmes] with the excuse to beat, if not shoot them down,” as a missionary described it. In 1931, shortly before retiring, Old Gimlet Eye Butler summarized his career before a legionnaires convention: I spent 33 years . . . being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism . . . I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I brought light to the
Patterns of Intervention Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 151 Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The historical record lends adequate support to Butler’s rendition. Nothing essential has changed since. 26
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