America's Splendid Little Wars

by Jack Ragsdale © 1986

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CHAPTER THREE

THE PHILIPPINES: MCKINLEY'S GIFT FROM THE GODS

Conquest under the banner of imperialism openly flaunted or covertly organized is certain to have a high cost in blood.


CHAPTER FOUR

REVOLUTION ON THE CHEAP: IRAN, 1953

In 1979, at the time of the fall of Iran, Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson, wrote of the CIA's 1953 "countercoup," or covert revolution in Iran: "We were all heroes. Now I must say sadly, that it is no longer true."


CHAPTER FIVE

MORE REVOLUTION ON THE CHEAP: GUATEMALA 1954

In 1523, under orders from Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico, Pedro de Alvarado took a force of one hundred twenty horsemen and two hundred soldiers with several pieces of artillery to conquer Guatemala for God and the Spanish king, and to acquire gold and silver. The natives of that country, however, had little gold, and offenses against them by the Spanish caused them to rebel, so that Cortes called them warlike and brave.