Drugb posted:Zed posted:You have a warped way of looking at this issue by acvusing Jagan of causing the US to instal the pnc dictatorship. It is like blaming the victim who suffered at the hands of the bully for what so ever attributes or excuse the bully use to victimize his of her victim.
Who is viewing Jagan as a god? He was human and made mistakes,. But any of the good books will tell you that it is the intention that counts. In retrospect, we can always say that we should have done this or that instead. Hindsight is 20-20.
i would argue that if you were a supporter of Jagan or the PPP, at any time and your argument holds (which I strongly disagree with) you are part of the problem, that blame should be placed in all who supported him over the years. You are making a wrong assumption that Jagan had total control over all the decisions that were made, that he was the only one responsible. You leave out all the other actors and factors existing at that time, you are unidimensional,in your approach which is poor scholarship and argument.
It is interesting that during his rule, prior tom1964 and after 1992, Jagan did nothing to implement a " communist" agenda in Guyana. His policies in both eras were those implemented in many countries, even in some of the advanced capitalist countries by social democrats. It is interesting that many of the non-aligned nations during that time were propagating the non-capitalist path of economic development until they went into power and faced the intricacies of governing.
I would argue that your views are warped. Apparently you are not too knowledgeable about the events at the time and the role of the aftermath of McCarthyism that pushed the CIA to embrace the PNC as the lesser of the too evils, Jagan representing communism and Burnham a more neutral stance. His role post 1992 was that of a despot who failed to lead Guyana forward. It was only after Jaggy took over and made the PNC toothless that we saw progress in the nation.
You throw out words without really knowing what you are talking about.
1. It was the Monroe doctrine that dictated American foreign policy in tthe West Indies and Latin America. Not McCarthyism.
2. Obviously you have problems with political concepts. In no way can Jagan in 1992be classified as a despot., unless of course if you are delusional or make up your own definitions outside of the scholarly ones. Please look at the remarkable social and economic changes initiated under Jagan's presidency. And please do not give me that PNC economic pseudo analysis that postulates that the growth under the PPPmrule was aresult of HOyte's economic policies.
3. Jagdeo find not make the PNC toothless, there were many demonstrations and many have argued that the nature of Jagdeo!'s rule resulted in the formation of the AFC and the resulting Granger election which threw Jagdeo and the PPP out of power.