When the U.S. meddled in another country's election
By Ariel Dorfman
Updated 6:16 PM ET, Fri July 29, 2016
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As a victim of America's own intervention in the events of Chile decades ago, I see the current chilling episode as a sobering opportunity for the country of Lincoln and Roosevelt of which I am now a citizen to look deeply into the dark mirror of its own past and understand that we can only denounce any foreign ruler's endeavors to intrude on our own business if we simultaneously are prepared to denounce the ways that the United States has intervened and continues to intervene in the life of democracies around the world, none of which need, and certainly don't ask, to be secretly saved from the irresponsibility of their own citizens.
They wish for the same freedom Americans do: to decide by themselves who they wish to vote for, which future and destiny will be theirs.
Is Russia trying to influence U.S. election?
If Hillary Clinton -- whom I forcefully support for president -- is really outraged at this sinister electronic incursion from afar that seems aimed at derailing her chances of being the first woman to take the oath of office next January, there is a useful way she can show it.
She might start by disavowing and criticizing her friend and counselor, Henry Kissinger, the man behind the secret bombing of Cambodia, the diplomat who gave the go-ahead for the coup in Indonesia that led to the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, the architect of the disastrous Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Such a repudiation might also be a good way to reassure many of her supporters who, like me, are concerned about her hawkishness.------- Snip-------