Of course. Hubris isn't new. Give any administration unlimited power and secrecy and even someone like Eisenhower justifies it. The key is remove the secrecy, and the American people will set things right.
From the prev story:" there's enormous amounts of hatred. It goes back in history, because of resentment.
"Why? It's easy to find out. The U.S. is a very free country. We have enormous internal classified records, so let's look at them.
"In 1958, the U.S. government faced, you know, from internal records, three major crises in the world. North Africa, Middle East and Indonesia, all with oil producing states, all Islamic states.
"President Eisenhower, in an internal discussion, observed to his staff, and I'm quoting now, "There's a campaign of hatred against us in the Middle East, not by governments, but by the people." The national security council discussed that question and said, "yes, and the reason is, there's a perception in that region that the United States supports status quo governments, which prevent democracy and development and that we do it because of our interests in Middle East oil.
"Furthermore, it's difficult to counter that perception because it's correct. It ought to be correct. We ought to be supporting brutal and corrupt governments which prevent democracy and development because we want to control Middle East oil, and it's true that leads to a campaign of hatred against us."
Now, until Bernard Lewis tells us that, and that's only one piece of a long story, we know that he's just a vulgar propagandist and not a scholar"
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As much fun as Chomsky is to read on trends that may be gradually improving in the long term, the problem with the Bush Inc. administration is how clearly Junior is a titular frontman for the boys in the back room, and how blatantly they conceal the records. |
