(Responding to a comment from the previous thread)
#42 Happy Warrior

re: #40 jaunte

She asked him if he would uphold human rights in the foreign policy decision process and he at first temporized, and then said it was “always” the policy of the United States.

He walked into that one and she did her homework. The Reagan administration is why there are a lot of problems in Central America and that’s another thing the Never Trumpers don’t want to own up to because it would mean admitting that the Reagan administration cared more about anti-communism than pro-democracy in that part of the world.

The screwing of Central America started much earlier though. I recently read about the history of the United Fruit Company and their sleazy dealings there. In the 50’s, both the Secretary of State and the head of the CIA were brothers who were on the payroll of the UFC. They used their offices to help the company by engineering an “anti-communist” coup in Guatemala among other things.

From Wikipedia: John Foster Dulles, who represented United Fruit while he was a law partner at Sullivan & Cromwell - he negotiated that crucial United Fruit deal with Guatemalan officials in the 1930s - was Secretary of State under Eisenhower; his brother Allen, who did legal work for the company and sat on its board of directors, was head of the CIA under Eisenhower; Henry Cabot Lodge, who was America’s ambassador to the UN, was a large owner of United Fruit stock; Ed Whitman, the United Fruit PR man, was married to Ann Whitman, Dwight Eisenhower’s personal secretary. You could not see these connections until you could - and then you could not stop seeing them.[16]

Sadly, too much of our foreign policy is aimed at helping plutocrats plunder people out of sight of the American citizenry.