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Originally Posted by Jasper84  Also, I heard Freud's theories are quite heavily criticized these days.(one of the comments of the first vid has link) That does not mean they did not use it, because what psychoanalysis says might still work, but not always. |
It's been a while since I've seen some of the documentaries mentioned, but I believe this is handled. I haven't memorized every aspect of them (just the gist) so I'd have to watch them again.
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Originally Posted by Jasper84 I wonder whether about Guatemala the whole US was really mis-informed, or more like Iraq, where many people just knew it was BS, but they got to go ahead anyway. (Hmm, i do not really remember my opinion of back then. Know i thought it all rather dubious.) |
I think you're referring to Nicaragua, not that the U.S. hasn't been to Guatemala they actually have on
three occasions, the last one being in 1966-67. But Nicaragua is what the whole Iran-Contra affair is about, most of which was well before my time. The documentary mentioned above is actually my first encounter with the affair, I'd need more information to adequately respond to your questions.
The big difference between Iraq and the Iran-Contra affair seems to be that in the case of Iraq the public was mislead and propelled into supporting an actual but undeclared war, in the case of Iran-Contra most of the stuff was covert and involved financing and supporting so called "freedom fighters" of which the public was not aware.
Don't take my word for it though, I know nothing ;)