U.S. officials collaborated with murderous regimes to secure base access overseas.
Evidence
The lack of full democracy in Guam and other places where one finds U.S. bases overseas is only the beginning. In their quest to secure base access around the globe, government officials have repeatedly collaborated with murderous, antidemocratic regimes and ignored widespread evidence of human rights abuses. The history of U.S. involvement in Honduras—where the “temporary but indefinite” Soto Cano Air Base has been operating since the 1980s—dramatically demonstrates just how much the military’s actions contradict the very ideals that it is supposedly dedicated to protecting. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 264
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- U.S. presence at Soto Cano makes America complicit in Honduran human rights abuses (similarity 0.87)
- American bases in Bahrain make the U.S. complicit in human rights abuse (similarity 0.86)
- Scattered small bases force collaboration with despotic regimes and enable coups. (similarity 0.82)
- Overseas bases cause environmental damage, crime, displacement, and colonial relations (similarity 0.81)
- Honduras served as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for US proxy wars (similarity 0.81)
- U.S. security aid to Honduras may fuel deadly political violence (similarity 0.81)
- Historical base cases cannot prove that overseas bases provide security (similarity 0.81)
- US forces enjoy unrestricted access to all Honduran bases with no status agreement. (similarity 0.80)
- Overseas bases sustain colonial relationships that deny citizens basic democratic rights (similarity 0.80)
- U.S. support for repression creates a cycle preventing democratization (similarity 0.79)
- Judgments about overseas base security value rest on prior beliefs, not evidence (similarity 0.79)
- The United States tends to support dictators in nations hosting its bases (similarity 0.79)
- The Navy’s crime links flow from how it secures stable base locations. (similarity 0.79)
- Soto Cano Air Base was a stop in the 2009 Honduran coup against Zelaya. (similarity 0.79)
- US bases abroad breed anti-Americanism and feed terrorist recruitment (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Maintaining bases in undemocratic nations makes the United States complicit in their abuses
#expands(0.70) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1077