Isiah's bane
The current Neocon clique likes the analogy of 1938- universal principles exist, and Hitler is replaced with "Islamofascists." Nixon and Reagan (surprise) are often cast in the role of Neville Chamberlain. What the Neocons claim to want is the forced imposition of the American Empire across the entire sphere of central Asia, and beyond. While Wilsonian in nature, neocon goals reject reliance upon international treaties and diplmatic norms. Thats why they harbor contempt for Nixon- detente and containment policies are viewed as appeasement- the re-approachment with China and Russia, and ending the Vietnam War, are thus seen as capitulations. The Neocons wanted victory, not accomodation. Reagan earned their wrath by retreating out of Lebanon after the barracks bombing in 1983.....
The Neocons live in a dream world, and they threaten us all- if we treated other countries fairly and with respect and didn't meddle in their internal affairs, they would not hate us. Imposing the American-corporate way of life upon other cultures is wrongheaded and arrogant. The Neocons really want universal fascism, a new feudalism...
(i'm sure the people of Tajikistan can hardly wait to become like us, with homeless people everywhere, serial killers lurking behind the Bushes, overfed McDonaldland people, drive by shootings, etc.)
The great journalist Seymour Hersh claims that, basically, America has been taken over by a cult.
A specific instance- the Cia with Britain deposed the Iranian President in 1953- oil was involved , as usual. We set up the Shah in power, and trained his secret police-the Savak. Eventually, the Iranian people got tired of being tortured and deprived of material goods- the Pahlevi's never spread the wealth far enough ,and they were widely seen as being decadent- fundamentalism arose, and in came the Ayatollah. If we had never kicked out the president in 1953, the 1979 revolution would not have happened, and we probably would not be in the mess we are in now in the region. Within the agency, this tendency for an operation to go very bad in the end, over a period of years, is called 'blowback.' An ethical foreign policy not based upon narrow business interests would prevent a world of strife and chaos and problems. Ask yourself- how many 'Jihadists' hate Finland? Belize? or Mongolia?...
The Neocons live in a dream world, and they threaten us all- if we treated other countries fairly and with respect and didn't meddle in their internal affairs, they would not hate us. Imposing the American-corporate way of life upon other cultures is wrongheaded and arrogant. The Neocons really want universal fascism, a new feudalism...
(i'm sure the people of Tajikistan can hardly wait to become like us, with homeless people everywhere, serial killers lurking behind the Bushes, overfed McDonaldland people, drive by shootings, etc.)
The great journalist Seymour Hersh claims that, basically, America has been taken over by a cult.
A specific instance- the Cia with Britain deposed the Iranian President in 1953- oil was involved , as usual. We set up the Shah in power, and trained his secret police-the Savak. Eventually, the Iranian people got tired of being tortured and deprived of material goods- the Pahlevi's never spread the wealth far enough ,and they were widely seen as being decadent- fundamentalism arose, and in came the Ayatollah. If we had never kicked out the president in 1953, the 1979 revolution would not have happened, and we probably would not be in the mess we are in now in the region. Within the agency, this tendency for an operation to go very bad in the end, over a period of years, is called 'blowback.' An ethical foreign policy not based upon narrow business interests would prevent a world of strife and chaos and problems. Ask yourself- how many 'Jihadists' hate Finland? Belize? or Mongolia?...
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