The article argues that betrayal of foreign allies and domestic proxy groups is a defining, centuries-long tradition of U.S. foreign policy. By examining historical examples from the American Revolution to recent conflicts in the Middle East and Asia, the author demonstrates how Washington repeatedly incites uprisings or enlists local partners before abandoning them to slaughter.
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### UNCLE SAM’S DOUBLE-CROSS: A CENTURIES-OLD TAPESTRY OF BROKEN VOWS AND ABANDONED ALLIES!
**From the Revolutionary Swamps to Modern-Day Skirmishes, Washington’s Favorite Pastime Appears to Be Selling Out Its Friends for a Song!**
**WASHINGTON, D.C.** — Who can keep the tally, old sport? It was but a few moons ago that Chief Executive Donald Trump took to the public square, urging the beleaguered souls of Persia to rise in righteous fury against their governing satraps.
*"When we are finished, take over your government! America is backing you with overwhelming strength!"* blared the President back in February, laying it on thick as molasses. *"This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass!"*
Piffle! Pure buncombe and hot air, much like a million pledges before it. Last week at the Ankara powwow, the President let the cat out of the bag, confessing that he knew full well the Persian opposition hadn’t a snowball’s chance in Hades against the regime’s machine guns. *"Nobody is gonna take over,"* he admitted blithely. *"They can’t take over because they’re dead."*
It is said that baseball is America’s national pastime, but a discerning fellow might wager a pretty penny that the true sport of Uncle Sam is the double-cross. Washington fancies nothing more than beckoning brave souls into the roaring fray, only to pull the rug and leave them high and dry to face the music—and the firing squad.
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### A SORDID PEDIGREE OF PERFIDY
This brand of lethal bamboozlement is no mere novelty; it is as old as the Republic itself.
Take, for instance, the grand rumble with King George. While most First Americans kept their distance or sided with the Crown, the Oneida Nation threw their lot in with the colonial rebels—saving Washington’s ragged Continentals from starvation by breaking the grim famine at Valley Forge. And how were they repaid for this noble turn? By the early 1900s, their sprawling homelands of five to six million acres had dwindled down to a paltry 32 acres.
Not to be outdone in treachery, Pennsylvania militiamen in 1782 fell upon a pacifist Christian Lenape community, bludgeoning ninety-six unarmed souls—including thirty-nine helpless piccaninnies—to death with hammers while they knelt in prayer. The ink on their alliance pact was scarcely dry before the Americans traded kinship for cold-blooded slaughter.
### ENTER THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE SELL-OUT
As the decades marched on, Uncle Sam truly hit his stride, ditching allies at a positively dizzying clip.
Remember the brave Filipinos? A quarter-million of them shouldered arms for the Stars and Stripes during the Great War, rewarded with solemn vows of pensions and health. But Congress soon whistled a different tune, passing the Rescission Act of 1946 to wipe those promises clean off the ledger.
And who could forget the charismatic Ho Chi Minh in French Indochina, who fought the Japanese alongside American operatives and even patterned Vietnam’s declaration of independence after Philadelphia’s finest? Did Washington tip its hat? Not on your life! The Yanks funded the French reconquest, plunged headfirst into a jungle quagmire, and later pulled the old vanishing act in '75, leaving local collaborators scrambling for the last whirlybird out of Saigon while a counterintelligence officer whispered, *"I’ll be right back,"* only to scurry off into the shadows.
From the Bay of Pigs—where Cuban exiles were promised the sky and left to twist in the wind—to the endless, heartbreaking saga of the Kurds, who are routinely used to bleed Uncle Sam’s adversaries only to be tossed aside like yesterday’s wet rag, the ledger of betrayal grows ever longer.
As Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once callously shrugged regarding a cynical plot to use and abuse the Kurdish fighters: *"Covert action should not be confused with missionary work."* Quite!
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### BEWARE GREEKS—AND AMERICANS—BEARING GIFTS!
The sage proverb warns us: *Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.* But what is a fellow to do when the "you" is always the Grand Republic, and the duped party is always someone new?
While the current administration works overtime to whitewash the history books, painting Uncle Sam as a plaster saint, the wise nations of the globe are taking notes. The dissidents of Persia had the right idea earlier this year, turning a deaf ear to Washington’s sirens. But those who still cozy up to the American eagle—whether in Caracas or Mexico—would do well to check their pockets.
For two and a half centuries, the evidence has been crystal clear: when the chips are down, betrayal isn't just a policy in the capital. It’s written right there in the nation’s very DNA!