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By: Campaign for Liberty’s Foreign Policy Reading List « Liberty Forged

Campaign for Liberty’s Foreign Policy Reading List « Liberty Forged — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:51 +0000

[...] Gareth Porter, reporter, IPS News [...]

By: The Fanonite

The Fanonite — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:01:42 +0000

Cheers Scott. That was very helpful. I must have missed this interview. It was superb (the neocon reference was towards 16:40 in the first interview). I had read the book when it first came out, but the interview was very useful in refreshing my memory. Let me also take this opportunity to compliment you on running an excellent radio show with easily the best roster of guests anywhere. (Bob McChesney's Media Matters is also great, but politically I find it rather tame. No mention ever of the Israel lobby, for instance).

By: Scott Horton

Scott Horton — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:36:16 +0000

I believe that is from the book Rumsfeld.
And it may be in one of my interviews of him as well.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/04/18/andrew-cockburn-pt1/
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/04/18/andrew-cockburn-pt2/

By: The Fanonite

The Fanonite — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:02:45 +0000

Scott,

In one of your interviews you had quoted Andrew Cockburn describing the neocons as the nexus between the Israel lobby and the military industrial complex. Was that in an interview with you, or was it in one of his articles? Can you kindly provide me the reference.

Cheers.

By: darryl

darryl — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:40:25 +0000

american soldiers are dying for israel how insane is that dj writes

By: darryl

darryl — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:21:29 +0000

american soldiers are dying for israel how insane is that

By: Marina

Marina — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:56:24 +0000

Robin,
Interesting point about Lewis and Cheney, but I don’t think the “strategically placed representatives ” -as you call them- would have been so successful without the support of prominent intellectuals like Princeton scholar Bernard Lewis.

I believe Lewis was the one that helped formulate the neo-con doctrine that muslim terrorists “hate us bcs we are free”. He is regularly referred to as their “sage”. I have never read any criticism of Lewis anywhere. He seems to be untouchable. I think Porter is right about Lewis being very influential.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:25:13 +0000

According to Gareth Porter – the decisive element in the policy decision to attack Iran is now found in the dark thoughts of Vice President Cheney formed after his brief visits to Pop historian/ War of Civilization ideologue Bernard Lewis…rather than in the offices of the Israeli government, its Embassy in Washington and its US-based attack unit – AIPAC. This is despite the AIPAC operatives having written – almost word for word – the recent Congressional resolution calling for a military blockade of Iran. In other words it is Darth Vader Cheney psychobabble over the regional power ambitions of Israel and its powerful agents in the US. We didn’t buy pop psychology about Adolf Hitler and the Second World War, why should we buy it now in this new World War? Both Porter and his buddy McGovern keep trotting out this elusive realistic side of Israel – blaming the unbalanced Goys (Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Idiot Prince) in the present Administration or the loony free agent Zioncons buzzing around them for the disasters in Iraq. The rabid militarists and loony toons were elements, but not the decisive elements in the war planning. It has to have been Israel and its strategically placed representatives in all branches of government – otherwise we cannot explain the almost total absence of opposition from the congress and senate for policies which were predicted to bankrupt the country and drag the military into years of counterinsurgency.

By: paul b

paul b — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:31:10 +0000

correction i beleive cincia mickiny is no longer in the congress.

well atleast we can now put all the good people in our government in to one car

By: paul b

paul b — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:29:36 +0000

Sad to say, a year from now, we’ll be able to include the liberal internationalists and “realists.”
you seem to be giving much of the congress much to much credit

i mean the republicans will filibuster the government to a complete halt for almost any reason they care to but the democrats won’t even delay slightly paying for and escalating a war they claim to be against.
no i see the ” war party” to be our government minus ,ron paul ,denis kucincich Maxine waters, and Bernie frank cincia mickeny.
every one esle should be impeached for the simple fact about lying about ending the war or at the very least making it slight harder to get every thing immediately rubber stamped.