1. On Leopold's rule of Congo, see Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912 (London: Abacus, 1992), and Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Boston/New York: Houghton Miffin, 1998). On Patrice Lumumba, see . This is not the only nor the earlist incident of the misguidance that has become a habit of the US. I would not call the US the Great Satan, but I can understand (after spending much of the last decade immersed in world history) why those who do do it.
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