Noam Chomsky - Turning the Tide U.S. intervention in

The Race to Destruction
Semitic laws. Stephen Ambrose comments: 54
The result was that in its first major foreign-policy venture in
World War II, the United States gave its support to a man who
stood for everything Roosevelt and Churchill had spoken out
against in the Atlantic Charter. As much as Goering or Goebbels,
Darlan was the antithesis of the principles the Allies said they
were struggling to establish.
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The American army next drove up the Italian peninsula, restoring the
rule of fascist collaborators while dispersing the Italian resistance, which
had fought courageously against up to six German divisions, after it had
liberated much of Northern Italy. “Italian committees of liberation might
stimulate partisan warfare and continue to help in destroying the
enemy,” Davidson writes, “but they were not going to be allowed to
govern Italy afterwards, being all too obviously the fruit of letting politics
loose among people who could not be trusted”; the partisans were in
effect told “to pack up and go home.” From 1948, the CIA undertook
large-scale clandestine intervention in Italian politics, labor and social
life, spending over $65 million in such projects (which continued at
least until 1975) by 1968, part of a more general European program in
which US labor leadership also played a significant role, contributing
effectively to the weakening of the labor movements. 55
In Greece, the British army took over after the Nazis had withdrawn,
displacing the Greek guerrillas and imposing a brutal and corrupt
regime, which evoked renewed resistance that Britain was unable to
control in its postwar decline. The US stepped into the breach under the
Truman Doctrine in 1947, launching a murderous counterinsurgency
war, complete with the full panoply of devices soon to be employed
elsewhere: massacre, torture, expulsion, reeducation camps, and so on.