A Little Observation: US Voters have been "Ditched" from Guiding Basic Foreign Policy
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A Little Observation: US Voters Have Been "Ditched” from Guiding Basic Foreign Policy
“The matter is strictly confidential, because the whole plan would be ‘ditched’ if it became generally known that the State Department is working in collaboration with any outside group,” Isaiah Bowman wrote. Agreeing on that with Bowman, who was a policy committee chairman in the 1940s, State Department and corporate people kept US voters out of the loop while setting up the so-called National Security system. Into 2022, this system has pursued resource control through over 70 coups, destabilizations, and invasions.
Ditched, Bowman says. Grose, P. (1996). Continuing the Inquiry : the Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996. NY: Council on Foreign Relations, p. 23.
Being “ditched,” voters have been prevented from guiding the general direction of foreign policy on the question: Should the US pursue resource control by coups, destabilizations, and invasions, or pursue fair trade by diplomacy and democracy?
Under rule of, by, and for the people, it is self-evident that government and corporation representatives aren’t supposed to decide that question. But government and corporation people decided that question anyway in a large number of actions. A Senior Fellow, Walter Russell Mead, of the influential Council on Foreign Relations, took time to point out what should be the voters’ role:
And while American foreign policy is studied in great detail by professionals and scholars, it must ultimately be debated and decided by tens of millions of voters. . . .
That principle—voters guiding the general direction of foreign policy—was the basis of the US Supreme Court allowing publication of the top-secret Pentagon Papers in 1971. The Pentagon Papers were “an official study of how the United States went to war in Indo-China.” They disclosed material lies by government. Publication to the public was allowed, because voters in a democracy need the truth from government. In a concurring opinion, Justice Hugo Black explained: “Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.”
But on a recent matter during the past 10 years, the US public has been blocked from the basic direction of foreign policy on Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Voters are now reduced to discussing after-the-fact: Did foreign policy leaders act to destabilize Ukraine and provoke Russia to attack, or were the US leaders innocent and did Russia attack unprovoked? Even for this lesser debate, voters are reduced to scrambling to ferret out snippets of facts. No full and fair information to voters comes from US government.
For decades, US voters have been groomed to accept the government cutting them out from the general direction of policy. A 1960–61 coup in the Congo stopped democracy and fair trade throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Even now, voters have no facts on why US soldiers are in many nations in that region. In Central America, the 1954 coup in Guatemala is now widely known to have been for a giant US corporation. That violence led to the 1980s Terror Wars in Central America. The 1953 coup in Iran made lots of people in the Middle East turn against the US. On Viet Nam, voters still haven’t been informed of a hidden, 1870s–1954 period of US colonial operations enabled by French force. Thus, the recent lack of facts on Ukraine is only the latest in 75 years of US democracy “ditched.”