The United States of America must now accept its fate as a former Super Power that has fizzled out!

VHeadline commentarist Kenneth T. Tellis writes: US presidents have used the Bunco Doctrine of 1823 as a means to interfere in the internal affairs of every Latin American country. Remember how August Sandino of Nicaragua was murdered by the U.S. Marines in the early 1930s ... then there were many other illegal interventions by the US into the internal affairs of Latin American states.

The US began by its direct involvement in the Colombian issue of the early 1900s and partitioned Colombia into two states, Colombia and Panama.

John F. Kennedy used the same Bunko Doctrine in the attempt to overthrow the Fidel Castro Ruz' Cuban Revolutionary government by the Bay of Pigs invasion that failed miserably.

• Of course his successor Lyndon Baines Johnson thought that he could extend the Bunco Doctrine of 1823 to South East Asia, and invaded Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 1964.

In the meantime there came Ronald Reagan who believed that he had every right to invade Grenada as part of the Bunko Doctrine ... after which US president George Herbert Walker Bush, who succeeded him, invaded Panama on the flimsiest of excuses.

Then along came William Jefferson Clinton who got the US to interfere directly into the Yugoslav CRISIS thinking he could apply the Bunco Doctrine of 1823 to EUROPE ... and so, Serbia was attacked, without any provocation at all, and had its province of Kosovo lopped off and made into a separate country.

Today the Bunko Doctrine is in a shambles.

The Russian have their supersonic TU-160 bombers at the El Libertador airbase in Venezuela. Russia is re-opening its former bases in Cuba and the US is no longer in the driver's seat.

To put it mildly, it is now in the back seat and has NO power to oust the Russians from their new South American military bases.

And so the BUNKO DOCTRINE of 1823 comes to an ignominious end, and the Empire that was is no more.

The United States of America must now accept its fate as a former SUPER POWER that has fizzled out!

Kenneth T. Tellis
kenttellis@rogers.com

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