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A 5 page book review t hat examines the main theme of David Schmitz' book T hank God They're On Our Side. Schmitz traces the policy of the US government to support right-wing dictatorships from the early part of the twentieth century to the present, pointing out the repercussions this has had in sentiment toward the US worldwide. No additional sources cited.
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mystified by the fact that so much of the world hates the US and anything "American." The prevalence of this scenario indicates the degree to which most Americans are either
ignorant of, or misunderstand, what has been the central conflict in American foreign policy throughout the majority of the twentieth century, which is the tension between the desire to encourage
democracy abroad and the requirements of national security. In his book T hank God Theyre On Our Side, David F. Schmitz discusses the US support of right-wing dictatorships despite the
avowed American commitment to international democracy. The first thing that Schmitz does in his introduction is to introduce the concept that promoting human rights and democracy requires a certain
degree of toleration for social instability and change (3). However, patience with areas of the world deemed crucial for US national security has been in short supply in Washington during
the twentieth century. While policymakers are philosophically in favor of encouraging democracies and human rights, they have chosen instead to support "right-win autocracies as a defense against democratic or left-win
movements that appears either unstable or prone to communist ideology" (Schmitz 3). Franklin D. Roosevelt is credited with a statement that sums up the attitude of the US government toward
its right-wing allies, "he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but is our son-of-a-bitch" (Schmitz 4). Schmitz traces the origin of this characteristic of US foreign policy to the nervousness that
US policymakers felt after the Russian Revolution of 1917, which evolved into a preoccupation with order and stability (4). It was felt that the economic and political dislocations experienced at
that time could have easily bolstered the spread of revolution. Therefore, US policymakers came to authoritarian governments that promised "stability, anti-Bolshevism, and trade" with the US (Schmitz 4). From
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