NPR Asks if Aggression is a New Thing, Ignores 70 Years of It
The story posits a seismic shift toward aggression, conveniently sidelining decades of US-backed coups, invasions, and sanctions across Latin America and the Middle East. Was the 2003 invasion of Iraq (without UN Security Council approval, mind you) a diplomatic tea party? Or the covert operations in Chile in 1973? This isn't a 'Trump Administration' innovation; it's a bipartisan tradition, merely
less veiled now. Perhaps the more pointed question NPR should ask is: why is aggression suddenly a concern when it’s directed at countries like Venezuela, but shrugged off when applied to sovereign nations like Iraq or countless others deemed 'unfriendly' by Washington? It raises questions about whose unilateralism is permissible, and whose is not.