U.S. NOT HOLIER THAN THOU (RUSSIA)

President Obama, the Democrats and some Republicans are all outraged over Russia’s alleged interference in this year’s presidential election

While I still have serious doubts that Vladimir Putin was directly involved in the hacking of the DNC and the release of emails that showed Hillary Clinton and the Democrats in a very bad light, let’s say that the evil Putin is guilty as claimed by the CIA. Do we have a right to be outraged over Russia’s interference in our elections? I don’t think so … that is unless we’re willing to admit we are the world’s biggest hypocrites.

Lest we forget, all during the Cold War, the U.S. interfered in the internal affairs of Latin American countries by supporting brutal right-wing dictatorships. In 1961 there was the CIA’s failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. In 1973, the CIA sponsored the overthrow by the military of Salvador Allende, Chile’s democratically elected Marxist president. In Nicaragua, the Reagan administration armed the right wing Contra rebels in an effort to over throw the Marxist government of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.

More recently, President Obama’s surrogates were in Israel helping the opposition in a failed effort to defeat Netanyahu in the Jewish state’s election. And the U.S. State Department even gave the largest Israeli opposition party an infusion of our taxpayer dollars.

OK, so Putin is evil, but we are not holier than thou!