It is a pattern. “Counter-terrorism training provided by American mercenaries to Emirati officers in Yemen has been used to train locals who can work under a lower profile - sparking a major uptick in political assassinations, a whistleblower told BBC Arabic Investigations.” Here only some examples: US trained butchers of Timor, Indonesia Human rights violations by the CIA Learning to kill by proxy The crimes of the US in Indonesia, Afghanistan and Guatemala The School of the Americas – a report From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington man behind brutal police squads Israel? It would be anti-Semitic to say that it has carried out political assassinations. Rogue State by William Bloom
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51