Where is Britain on this list? Some would even consider the article to be misguided since it seems to premise that the US is not an unsavory character itself.

COUNTRY: India

RECORD 1: Human rights violations in Kashmir. Extrajudicial killings, rapes and abductions of men women and children. Last month mass graves found in Kashmir Since 1947 it has refused to abide by the UN resolutions against it to allow the Kashmiris right to vote to express their opion whether they want to remain with India, join Pakistan or become independent.

RECORD2: Known as the Guarat Massacre there was systematic killing, burning people alive even unborn fetuses, sexual violence agaisnt women, by middle class Hindus with full support of the two main ploitical parties: Bajrang Dal and BJP. The main culprit Narendra Modi still is considered a hero politician by Hindus.

BRITISH FOREIGN Office:“This is India's internal problem...We offer our support to the Government of India in this difficult time.” refusing to condemn the massacre of Muslims in India.

RECORDS3: Massacre of naxalite maoist rebels. Maoists want independence from India. India needs Maoist land. 60 year history is full of the worst human rights violations.

There is more.....

US & UK INTEREST: To prop India up against China.

US & UK SUPPORT: Helping it attain a seat in UN Security Council. Entered into a nuclear agreement giving India sepcial status ultimmately allowing it to produce weapons grade uranium flouting US's own non-proliferation rules. India is the 4th largest recipient if aid.

Beside those few, the US is friendly with many more terrible dictatorships:
MENA:
-Morocco ("major non-NATO ally"; "U.S.-Moroccan relations, characterized by mutual respect and friendship")
-Algeria ("The United States and Algeria consult closely on key international and regional issues"; "In 2007, U.S. direct investment in Algeria totaled $5.45 billion, mostly in the hydrocarbon sector")
-Jordan ("Relations between the United States and Jordan have been close for 6 decades")
-Yemen ("Defense relations between Yemen and the United States are improving rapidly")
-Oman ("provided access to Omani military facilities by U.S. forces under agreed-upon conditions"; )
(in the Mideast, all helped against terorism)

Sub-Saharan Africa:
-Angola ("The U.S. and Angola signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in May 2009"; "in July 2010 signed an agreement for a Strategic Partnership Dialogue")
-Djibouti ("Djibouti is a U.S. partner on security, regional stability, and humanitarian efforts in the Horn of Africa. The Djiboutian Government has been very supportive of U.S. and Western interests")
-DRC ("U.S. relations with the DRC are very strong")
-Gabon ("Relations between the United States and Gabon are excellent")
-Congo ("Relations between the United States and the government of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso are positive and cooperative")
-Cameroon ("U.S.-Cameroonian relations are close")
etc. etc. (in Asia, etc.)

All quotes here are from the State Dept. website so there is no disputing them. But all this is in the past, the question is what the U.S. will do when the next dictator comes to power. If history (even recent history) is any guide, the U.S. will publicly condem but privately support. The world really hasn't changed.

U. S. not only supports but mollycoddles even worse unsavory ally or rather friend and foe rolled into one which is Islamic fundamentalist State of Pakistan.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Senate Armed Services Committee on 9/22/2011 that “The Haqqani network ... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. With ISI support, Haqqani operatives plan and conducted” a truck bomb attack that wounded more than 70 U.S. and NATO troops on Sept. 11, as well as the assault on our embassy two days later“.

With an ally like Pakistan, U. S. does not need an enemy.

Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is being investigated for ties to organ trafficking during Clinton's war of aggression in the Balkans. Kosovo is a NARCO state propped up by US and European aid that is run by former KLA terrorists. The government has no intention to comply with the Ahtisaari Plan which calls for the protection of rights and property for the minority population. The US has helped create a rogue state in Europe's most explosive region.

All right, so what exactly are we prepared to do about these "unsavory allies"? Cut ties with them? Impose sanctions? If two dictators are equally bad, do we treat them differently depending on which is more useful to us?

There have been deluge of posturings and questions are always asked why USA and west has sided with or even propped up dictators and despots in Oil Rich Middle East.

No country is a saint and neither a demon, their perception of national interest guides them to their doings.
This old age stand that, west is an ageless exploiter and east is eternal innocent poor, is flawed and stuck in past acidic world view, devoid of acceptance of ground realities..

Middle East countries for long have been ruled by authoritarian and hybrid regimes headed by dictators and monarchs.
There must have been some peculiar reasons holding back all these great men, who due to some compulsions, never tried to promote democracies in these countries.

Most Arabs settled in west sing paeans of praise for individual freedom, secularism and democracies. But amongst them, exists a deeply hostile ghettoised rabid fringe, seized of different agendas.

Before going out, Mubarak tried hard to retain power by raising the bogey of his beloved Egypt descending in to turmoil and Islamic fundamentalism. But due to intense internal and external pressures, he went out, leaving power to the military council.

In neighboring Libya, Gaddafi unleashed expected brutal suppression of the people and ordered his air force to fire on the foreign inspired, Drugged Rats swarming defiantly on the shining roads.

“No, you don’t understand system in Libya.”

Eventually Gaddafi was found hiding in a sewer drain like a Rat, the expression he used for fighters apposed to his 42 years of brutal dictatorship.

Further, if USA/West wants to buy oil, other minerals and trade, they must first dislodge the well entrenched dictators, allow non existent or feeble democratic ideals, ethos, institutions, mechanism to take shape and than do deals with new dispensations!

In comparison, how the former USSR, now CIS countries and China has dealt with such issues. Have they not dealt with who so ever is at the helm, including dictators, despots and Monarchies?

Leftists writers and commentators love to be frozen in history of conflicts and acrid politics along with their cast iron narratives of imperialism, exploitation. Or what ever is convenient to further their inherently radical ideological agendas.

In the Middle East, If the legal system and judicial infrastructure has failed to deliver justice, the blamed is still being conveniently heaped on the long departed Britishers. And this narrative never questions the abilities or infirmities of the societies still trying to live by notions and regressive concepts of tribal justice.

Conflicts continue to explode with sickening regularity and death tolls mount in Iraq, even after departure of US troops. Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and numerable tribes are busy mounting deadly attacks on each others, as if there would be no other day to kill the vile opponents.

Why the Iraqis can not sit together and resolve their conflicts by peaceful negotiations, instead of killing, maiming and bombing each others?

Are they not socially, politically and psychologically inclined to resolve the conflicts through negotiations, give and take?

Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigor Leiberman should be 1 and 2 on that list, but they get a pass because one can assume that Uri has other loyalties than to the truth.

The arms deal is 53 million, not billion.

I cant begin to describe how ashamed I am that the government of my country (USA) willingly ignores the human rights violations and blatant persecution of religious minorities in India. The following information, obtained from a reliable media source, summarizes some of the issues:

"With over 1 billion people, India is the world’s largest democracy. While Hinduism is the primary religion, there are also a significant number of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and other minorities. There have been several acts of extreme violence against Christians in India. In 2008, more than 100 Christians were killed and more than 50,000 displaced from their homes following unprecedented attacks by Hindu radicals in the Kandhamal district of Orissa State. Hindus attacked these Christians in an act of revenge after the prominent Hindu leader, Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati, and four of his followers were killed. Hindu groups falsely accused local Christians for the murders although it was proven that their leader was killed by Maoist insurgents.

Although violence in Orissa has calmed, Christians continue to face challenges. Many churches were destroyed, and others remain closed, making it difficult for Christians to worship in public. The Hindus suspected of the Orissa attacks have been exonerated by courts due to lack of evidence and police negligence to properly investigate suspects. There have been more than 120 acquittals, including the ringleader, Manoj Pradhon, a legislator from the Hindu extremist BJP party.
Many Christians in Orissa are still unable to return to their homes due to threats issued by Hindu radicals forcing their conversion to Hinduism as a condition for their return. These Christians continue to suffer in refugee camps that lack housing, sanitation and food.

Government: United Progressive Alliance, the country’s ruling coalition, promotes the ideals of religious freedom. However, Hindu nationalist parties and organizations such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) engage in anti-Christian activities by advocating for policies that directly discriminate against Christians, including restrictions against converts to Christianity. Moreover, some members have also instigated violent attacks against Christians, Muslims and other minorities. Extremist Hindu nationalists promote the ideology of Hindutva, a belief that India belongs only to Hindus.

In addition to violence, Christians also face discrimination from state and local officials. The states of Gujarat, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh enforce anti-conversion laws which restrict the freedom of Hindus to convert to other religions. The state of Arunachal Pradesh has an "anti-conversion" law that, while not being enforced, shows the anti-Christian bias of the lawmaker. Government officials at the state level have repeatedly failed to protect religious minorities from attacks of impunity and have even encouraged Hindu nationalists to carry out such attacks."

u gotta be kidding me! Did you know that during the Reagan and George Bush administrations, Saudi Arabia provided billions of funds and way much more than the US to keep anti-Communist struggle around the world? Did you know that back in 1985, when the US Congress itself shamefully declined to allocate funds to support Nicaragua freedom fighters, Reagan personally requested King Fahd to channel the required secret funds?! Did you know that in so doing, Saudi Arabia actually helped to speed up the end of the Cold War and the fall of the USSR? There was no other country who dared to do it but the Saudia. How R. Lacey put it to describe this interesting relationship, "For America it was a very good return on 35,000 gold sovereigns (read "American early investment into Saudi oil")." So, it is clear why the US still "supports" SAK. It used it and still continues to need it in the region. Decision makers know this. So, blame the US government, and call to explain the history of those special relationships which the US landed with "rogue" or "unsavory" countries. See the seed itself. Putting blame and burden on the rest of the world is so cheap!

But I think you have to Add Israel.. for the apartaid. via Ipad 3

Either the author is a blindman or he is plain stupid. That is why he has not included india in the list.

From north eastern to north western India, India is on the rampage against the freedom fighters. Kashmiris and innocent maoists are being killed by the thousands. yet, india has not been shamed in this article.

India is home to a billion murderers. The hindu rascals maraud around the length and breadth of India and put to death all those who are weak or are state orphans. The hindus have forged an all encompassing monoply in India. These intolerant and extremist loafers have no respect for pluralism. They want to turn India into a hindu desh at the expense of christians, communists, muslims and other minorities.

The hindu religion is by far the worst religion in the world. Rather than stressing upon an equality of rights, it propagates that all human beings are born unequal. Some are born brahmins , some kashatriyas, some vyshyas and the rest soodras. The funkiest of all religions, if it deserves being called a religion, teaches that no soodra can ever be equal to a brahmin.The religion assails equality in these words,
" The brahmin is the father of the sooder , no matter if the soodra is a hundred years old".

This is extremism of the first order; this is the mount everest of stupidity.

Thousands of shoodras are wantonly killed by hindu brahmins. In fact, even if a word of gita enters the years of a shoodra, it becomes incumbent upon the brahmins to do in that miserable creature. O God, what bestiality is this.

These hindus who call maoists terrorists should spare some time for introspection.

A few years back, a gang of brahmins brutally molested a nine year old maoist girl. The Indian bestial police refused to take action against the culprits. Such incidents have become routine in India. In these circumstances, if maoists dont demand independence , what else should they do.

When will the enlightened international community wake up to the reality that India is perpetrating inhuman war crimes, that india is genocidal against kashmiris and maoists.

When will the indian army and police terrorists arraigned in The international court of justice. When will the indians be punished for the crimes they have committed.

I request all men and women of heart to protest against indian atrocities against kashmiris and maoists. I humbly request them to remonstrate with their respective governments as to why they have not severd their relations with the terrorist state of India.

when will the murderous india be wiped off the map of the world. perhaps soon.

This is a question for everyone. How many of the world's countries don't do business with the US? So shouldn't everyone (maybe excluding North Korea and Myanmar) be on the short list of "unsavory" countries? Get a life and an appreciation for how the world works. Wow, nation's act in their own self interest. The US promotes liberalism where it can and it supports rat bastards when it needs to. Go whine to the Melians.

Has any body wondered what would happen if an army of a billion monsters broke loose in the world. I have ruminated over this question for hours. The only answer could be that the whole world will be turned topsy turvy amidst streams of blood.

THE chinese, pakistanis, kashmiris and yes us maoists should join hands together and with the support of the international community should crush the lair of murderers and criminals-- india-- to keep the world safe and fit for human habitation.

Let us bomb the lights out of indian rascals.

Why is everyone on here so sensitive and unrealistic about international affairs? What Sec. Clinton said about our support of unsavory leaders is 100% accurate. We can't change the world in one swing, and we must sometimes work with people who are not Angles. It's not that we don't care about human rights, its that when you run a country you must often decide between the bad you know and the bad you don't know. I know that doesn't make it any better for the people suffering, but that's life. This sort of FP is what happens in the real world and it has never happened differently, and never will. So...why do we care? Things will sort themselves out eventually anyway.

INDIA must be punished.

Wow, when you look at the state of affairs of all these countries, this is really like a school playground that is more like a prison yard. All of these governments harbor tyrants.

Israel is a tough sell as a bad government to me. They have land the size of Delaware surrounding by nothing but enemies, and then they have people on their west side trying to blow themselves up. I feel for the Palestinians, but if you don't bring a reasonable voice to a negotiating table, and you keep perpetuating violence, what the heck are the Israelis supposed to do?

Israel is the only thriving democracy in that region that produces anything of value for the world other than oil. I wonder what would happen in that region if the oil dried up; the surrounding nations would have nothing to export.

FYI Arabs aren't anti-Semitic as both Arabs and Jews are technically "semites".

But before going on, this is the whole problem. Each region has its own "issues" and the US can't work it out for them. Until other nations learn to play nicely with each other all the US can really do is try to deal with the lesser of many evils.

And unfortunately the average American really has no idea who its government is involved with outside of the news. We're more interested in who is being featured on Dancing with the Stars and how to design your own t-shirt and superficial things like that.

The mainstream media doesn't really cover these things until something explodes or there is drama. It's site like this that actually make this kind of a conversation possible.

This is nothing new and as one previous poster pointed out, the list is pretty short. There are most likely more countries that are not on here that the US supports. Look at the track record of the US and you will have your evidence, unless you believe that the US has cleaned up its act. In that case, you need to pull your head out of the sand, because nothing has changed with the US and their support of corruption and dictators, so long that they serve the US's interests. This will go on until the US can no longer pull its heavy-weight in the global scene, which some say is sooner rather than later. The US needs to go to a rehab, not a drug rehab but a rehab for being addicted to the good life. The US supports these dictators and corrupt leaders because they are always on the lookout for more, there is never enough and to feed this desire at home, the US extends itself into countries wherever it can get more to satiate this unquenchable desire.

Hasim Thaçi

Country: Kosovo

Record: Beginning in1993, Thaçi became a member of the inner circle of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), regarded by the US as a terrorist group a year before NATO’s intervention on the side of the KLA insurgency in Yugoslavia (Serbia). Thaçi came to the head of the Kosovo Liberation Army, reported by The Washington Times to be financing its activities by trafficking heroin and cocaine into Western Europe. Evidence exists that financing for the KLA was also secured through Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. Since NATO’s air victory in 1999, Kosovo Albanians under Thaçi’s leadership have ethnically cleansed over 250,000 Kosovo Serbs and in 2004 destroyed, desecrated, or damaged over 935 Serb houses, 10 public facilities (schools, health care centers and post offices) and 35 Serbian Orthodox church-buildings.

U.S. Interest: Some suggest that US interest in Kosovo is to gain access to its valuable mineral deposits, which include huge and almost unexploited reserves of coal, lead and zinc, lignite, bauxite and nickel. The giant Trepca lead and zinc mine near the northern town of Kosovska Mitrovica is the province's largest. Others such as the Guardian newspaper suggest that Kosovo Albanian mafia state has become a "smugglers' paradise" supplying up to 40% of the heroin sold in Europe and North America.

U.S. Support: The US has supported Kosovo Albanian independence of the once predominantly Serb populated province and has invested significant funds and effort in standing up a primarily Kosovo Albanian police, border and judicial system. US support has also overlooked grave human rights abuses against Kosovo Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks, Croats and other non-Albanian populations at the hands of Kosovo Albanians.

After reading this article about US allies, I had a lot of conflicting thoughts. For one thing, if the United States is so hell bent on being politically correct and just, as what most of its politicians would say, why would they associate themselves with these types of people? These people are well known for amassing fortunes while the rest of their country suffers in hunger. These are people who do not even try to hide their level of corruption. How could they? Is there really no end to all this?

The American allies, and their wealthy affiliates mentioned in this article have done heinous crimes to human society and have shown a blatant disregard even to the most basic of human rights - mass killing, child labor, vote buying and intimidation, crimes against women, and a whole lot more. It really appalls me what people can do just for greed and power. And now we’re seeing that the United States, a recognized world power and a self-proclaimed top defender of human rights, allying themselves with these people.

Citizens from other countries and worldwide brands might see this as a threat. The US is hoarding allies well known for despicable acts. For what? Are they planning on becoming the world’s top super power? Would they be the one controlling the world’s economy since they have the assets of these countries at their bidding? There are still many other questions that come to mind, but who can supply the answers?

However, if you look at it from the eyes of a political power house, allying yourself with these people might just secure your country and boost you up the food chain of political world powers. If you are the head of a certain country, in this case, the United States, you would most certainly place your country in the safest position. You most certainly will not allow your country to go down the drain quietly. You will pull in assets and surround yourself with so much weaponry that nobody would want to threaten your soil again. Having been attacked by terrorists numerous times, you might just try and understand their standpoint.

They do not make moves without meticulously calculating the effects. The US knows that with these allies, their chess pieces in this global power play are set well to defend the king – their country. If you are the President of the United States, would you have done any different? Being one of the top world powers lands them in a very precarious situation. Almost everyone would want to unseat them and grab their place.

I have been thinking about it a lot, and though it may shame me to say this, but I might just do what the current President is doing. I would pull in as much allies as I can get and from every corner I can get them from. However, I will use my influence as a global power house to try and abolish their inhumanly ways and make room for a better world. Everyone dreams of world peace. Somebody should be brave enough to do something about it. The United States actually has the means to do it, but I really do not have any idea as to why they’re not making any major moves at all.

It's great for President Obama to share the Bush administration's enthusiasm. I was checking for portable printers review when I get to know more information about Obiang. I've been thinking how many corrupt countries are still out there.

Many experts have put forward the proposition by exponents of the U.S. strategy practice that because a conflict runs on expediency, with unexpected bedfellows taking part as companions, unsavory allies are bound to happen - starting from Islamist militias to pe treatmentregimes that bankroll militant Islamic fundamentalism in another country.

Well that's how politics work. On one day he's your friend the next day he's your foe because he's not going to get hold of his power. This is the bitter heartburn of the world and there's no relief.

At the end of the day every country will look after it's own need, they will look to make extra money and grow in any way they can and they will pick and choose their allies accordingly and this may change over time

It's tragic to see how the CIA has sponsored dictators all over the world. it's really bestiality. The foreign aid that we give to these countries is really strategic military funding. I support ron paul and webster tarpley when it comes to these matters.

It appalls me what individuals can perform only for greed and power. And today we’re simply because America, an accepted world power along with a self-proclaimed top defender of human rights, allying themselves with one of these people. The American allies, as well as their wealthy affiliates mentioned in the following paragraphs did heinous crimes to human society and also have shown a blatant disregard even going to the standard of human rights - mass killing, child labor, vote buying and intimidation, crimes against women, far more more.