America The Dictator

 

One of U.S. military bases in Japan.

What right does America have, to have military bases in other countries and to support insurrection? 

The question is seldom asked within its borders, but you hear it quite often if you live in other parts of the world. The answer is World War 2. There were two enemies: Germany and its friends, Japan and Italy, fighting the British Empire and its friends, China, France and Russia.

America was not in the war, when it started. Britain and its friends were getting a beating from Germany and friends like Japan. During those days, he who controlled the high seas and the air controlled the world.

Britannia ruled the waves and skies therefore, it got a shock when on 8 December, 1941 Japan, so far away from Hawaii, bombed American ships and planes stationed in Pearl Harbor. Because of the time difference, it was still 7 December in Hawaii and Washington.

To say America was incensed at being caught napping while it was buying Christmas gifts for the tree, is an understatement. President Roosevelt immediately declared war on Japan. That is how the United States of America joined World War 2, to the delight of Winston Churchill, Britain’s army chief. That was 1941. 

America never forgot Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. President Truman retaliated by dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

That is how the war ended, with America being the hero. Since then, the U.S. maintains a navy, air force, ground troops, propaganda, digital and nuclear war machine to defend what it regards as its interests in the world, mainly oil.

That answers the question, what right does the U.S. have to do whatever it likes, globally.

This is another ‘written podcast’ by Nonqaba waka Msimang.