Operation Success was really a failure

I’m going to tell you a story. It’s a story about “Operation Success.”

Never heard of it? You’re probably not alone. Most of the millions of people in the United States don’t know the tale of how our State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954.

It’s a brilliant story. It was done on a shoestring budget and in such a way as to not attract international attention to the fact that the leader of the free world, the proponent of representative government, was in fact doing away with such in a foreign land.

Of course, our...