The American Trajectory: Divine Or Demonic?

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In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. A prequel to Griffin's Bush and Cheney, this book demonstrates with many examples the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided. "Supported by extensive research, Griffin thoroughly debunks the myth of an American Empire as a benign, exceptionalist, divinely ordained historical agent. Instead of Manifest Destiny, what reality- based Griffin charters is the ‘malign' ways of US foreign policy since the 19th century; a trajectory founded by slavery and genocide of indigenous peoples and then imperially expanded, non-stop. ‘Malign' happens to be a term currently very much in vogue across the Beltway—but always to designate US competitors Russia and China. Griffin consistently challenges Beltway gospel, demonstrating that if the US had not entered WWI, there may have been no WWII. He unmasks the lies surrounding the true story of the Pearl Harbor attacks. He asks: If the US was really guided by God, how could it ‘choose' to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, knowing that ‘the atomic bombs were not necessary to end the war?' Griffin also shows how the Cold War was actually conceptualized several years before the 1950 National Security Council paper 68 (NSC- 68). He revisits the origins of irrational hatred of Iran; the demonization of Cuba; the lies surrounding the Vietnam debacle; the false flags across Europe via Operation Gladio; the destruction of Yugoslavia; the decades-long evisceration of Iraq; and the ramifications of the Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine. This sharp, concise history of the American Empire ultimately demonstrates, in Griffin's analysis, the ‘fraud' of endorsing self- praising American Exceptionalism. A must read." —Pepe Escobar, Asia Times/Hong Kong. Cover ......Page 1 Title ......Page 3 Copyright ......Page 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 5 INTRODUCTION......Page 9 FROM THE BEGINNING TO WORLD WAR I......Page 37 WORLD WAR I......Page 69 BETWEEN THE WARS......Page 90 WORLD WAR II......Page 123 PEARL HARBOR......Page 137 HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI......Page 153 THE UNITED NATIONS......Page 170 CREATING THE COLD WAR......Page 183 AMERICAN IMPERIALISM DURING THE COLD WAR......Page 207 THE VIETNAM WAR......Page 247 FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS......Page 305 SOME POST-COLD WAR INTERVENTIONS......Page 327 THE DRIVE FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE......Page 361 AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM......Page 381 THE AMERICAN CENTURY......Page 387