Rhobert Ap Wmffre a ddywedodd:Roedd Manifest Destiny rhan o'r un agwedd hiliol tu ôl i'r imperialaeth Brydeinig: sef yr "hawl" gan bobl wyn i ddwyn tir a chyfoeth oddiwrth brodorion "di-wareiddiedig" ac eu "cristioneiddio" nhw hefyd. Ond dydw i ddim yn gweld hyn ar rhan yr UDA fel bwriad i ddod yn "superpower" mewn synnwr cyfoes.
Newydd ddarganfod
araith hynod ddifyr gan y Cadfridog Smedley Butler yn y 30au sydd yn dangos yr agwedd yma ar waith. Roedd Butler ar y pryd yn y soldiwr mwyaf addurnedig erioed i'r UDA. Edrych fel yr oedd ganddo gywilydd o fod yn rhan o'r fath beth. Dyma ddyfyniad:
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
A mae'r "racketeering" yma wedi para tan heddiw ac yn dal i fynd ymlaen.
Postiwyd: Maw 24 Gor 2007 3:51 pm