Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter
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Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses his article “What Is Sadr’s Game on Future US Troop Presence?” at antiwar.com, about Moqtada al-Sadr trying to have it both ways, by privately agreeing to an extended US troop presence (and getting free border security) while planning limited attacks against Americans (to keep his nationalist credibility intact).
MP3 here. (19:43)
Gareth Porter is an independent historian and journalist. He is the author of Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam. His articles appear on Counterpunch, Huffington Post, Inter Press Service News Agency and Antiwar.com.
Roger Lafontaine
July 19th, 2011 at 7:54 am
How utterly pointless it all seems. Obviously none of our politicians understand any of this, and our generals at most very superficially, if at all. If the 'intelligence' community (or anti-intelligence) were simply to take notes from Gareth Porter they would save themselves a ton of work and $$$. And get it right for a change.
Iraq snapshot (C.I.) | thecommonillsbackup
July 19th, 2011 at 7:35 pm
[...] Presence” (IPS via Dissident Voice) and his conversation with Scott Horton (Antiwar Radio). The interview is now posted at Antiwar Radio. Excerpt: Scott Horton: Now, Gareth, I think you say in this article and you were alluding to [...]
mindy cohn (Rebecca) | thecommonillsbackup
July 20th, 2011 at 2:19 am
[...] (IPS via Dissident Voice) and his conversation with Scott Horton (Antiwar Radio). The interview is now posted at Antiwar Radio. Excerpt: Scott Horton: Now, Gareth, I think you say in this article and you were alluding to this [...]
eCAHNomics
July 20th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Sadr seems as much a fool as U.S. military,.