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Title: Another Manufactured Revolution
Author: Kevin Carson
Date: March 30, 2005
Language: en
Topics: revolution, conservatism, US foreign interventions
Source: Retrieved on 4th September 2021 from https://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/03/another-manufactured-revolution.html

Kevin Carson

Another Manufactured Revolution

Well, what a surprise! It turns out that the recent “revolution” in the

Kyrgyz Republic was just the latest in the series of manufactured

Orange, Inky Finger, and Cedar Revolutions, of the same ilk as most of

the other examples of “People Power” over which the neocons have waxed

so eloquent these past 20 years. The following is from a December 30

report by Ambassador Stephen M. Young:

Taking into account the interests, of our presence in the region and

development of democratic society in Kyrgyzstan, our primary goal

—according to the earlier approved plans — is to increase pressure upon

Akaev to make him resign ahead of schedule after the parliamentary

elections Realizing the plan is of key importance as, we think, the

present opposition is not strong enough to challenge the present

authorities, though Akaev has claimed he is not going to prolong his

terms of office... With a view to providing favorable conditions and

helping democratic opposition leaders come to power, our primary goal

for the pre-elections period is to arouse mistrust to the authorities in

force and Akaev’s incapacitated corruption regime, his pro-Russian

orientation and illegal use of “an administrative resource” to rig

elections. In this regard, the embassy’s Democratic commission, Soros

Foundations, Eurasia Foundation in Bishkek in cooperation with USAID

have been organizing politically active groups of voters in order to

inspire riots against pro-president candidates.

It mystifies me, by the way, that Bill O’Reilly insists on labelling

George Soros as “far left.”

We have set up and opened financing for an independent printing office —

the Media Support center — and AKIpress news agency to interpret

impartially the course of the elections and minimize state mass media

propaganda impact. We also render financial support to promising

non-governmental tele- and radio companies.

According to public polls results, we can come to conclusion that only a

minor part of the population— former USSR citizens — is satisfied with

close cooperation with Russia. Young people are most likely oriented to

the West. Therefore we consider it extremely important to popularize

American way of life among them to diminish Russian influence. At least

45 national higher schools have their local Students in Action

organizations, which we are planning to use properly during

parliamentary and presidential elections. In our opinion, those

additional funds ($5 mm) transferred by the Department of State to hold

seminars in all leading Universities of Kyrgyzstan and organize training

in western countries turned out insufficient.

In the view of the pit-election situation and effort to provide fair and

democratic elections in the KR and retain our positions in mass media

and contacts with the opposition leaders, I advise focusing on

discrediting the present political regime, thus making Akaev and his

followers responsible for the economic crisis. We should also take steps

to spread information on probable restriction of political freedoms

during the election campaign.

It is worthwhile compromising Akaev personally by disseminating data in

the opposition mass media on his wife’s involvement in financial frauds

and bribery at designation of officials. We also recommend spreading

rumors about her probable plans to run for the presidency, etc. All

these measures will help us form an image of an absolutely incapacitated

president.

Young’s repeated references to Russian political influence confirm that

American involvement in former Soviet Central Asia is just a strategic

effort by Oceania to mop up the remnants of Eurasia, and to secure

control of the Caspian oil basin.

Thomas Carothers’ work is useful for properly evaluating what

neoconservatives mean when they exult over “democracy” and “rule of

law.” Writing in “The Reagan Years: The 1980s,” (in Abraham F.

Lowenthal, ed., Exporting Democracy), he argued that American

“pro-democratic” policy in the Third World has traditionally identified

“democracy” with electoralism, and little else. The “underlying

objective” of pro-democracy policies is “to maintain the basic order of

what... are quite undemocratic societies.” Democracy is a means of

“relieving pressure for more radical change,” but only through “limited,

top-down forms of democratic change that [do] not risk upsetting the

traditional structures of power with which the United States has been

allied.” Democracy policy in El Salvador, for instance, promoted a form

of “democracy” through the Duarte regime that did not touch the power of

the military or the landed elite.

As I’ve written repeatedly here (some might call it an obsession), the

main purpose of all these so-called “democratic” revolutions is to

install a pliable leadership that’ll be easier for the World Bank and

IMF to deal with.

Update. Sigh Jesse Walker tipped me off that all or part of the memo may

be a fake. The U.S. embassy in Kyrgyzstan has denied its authenticity.

Even Justin Raimondo is repudiating it. I’m not sure how much of it is a

forgery (if any), but take it with a grain of salt.