Al McLellan writes from Facebook:
Do you think Obama’s foreign policy makes sense? What is the logic? He always sides with the bad guys (super fascists).
US foreign policy always supports rightwing regimes the world over. We support all rightwing regimes and we oppose all left regimes. In a nutshell, that is vile US foreign policy forever now. Fascists are just rightwingers, and US foreign policy has always supported fascist states and movements in their various forms.
In fact, one of the most bizarre things about WW2 is that it was one of the first times in US history that US foreign policy not only opposed fascism but we actually went to war with the fascists. Americans actually fought and died fighting their best buddies, the fascists. I am quite happy with the US role in WW2, but it was very much an aberration.
Of course as soon as WW2 was over and the fascist states were defeated, the US went right back to palling up with their fascist buddies. Former Nazis were enrolled in the CIA, and US intelligence helped countless Nazis escape to foreign lands, usually Latin America. A very heavily armed network called the GLADIO stay behind network consisting mostly of hardcore West European fascists was set up in all of Western Europe. The purpose was in case of a Soviet invasion and conquest of Western Europe, the GLADIO forces would form guerrilla armies to fight the new Communist regimes that the Soviets set up.
GLADIO forces caused much damage from 1945-1990. In Italy they committed a lot of violence, setting off bombs in train stations, assassinating people, etc. Apparently the CIA was deeply involved in this rightwing terrorism in Italy.
Recently GLADIO fascist forces with deep support from the CIA committed a violent coup and overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine.
US alliances with fascists in the Taiwan, South Korea, Fiji, Brunei, Morocco, Philippines, Indonesia, Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Greece (the generals’ junta) are or were very long-standing.
