Zooey Greif Interviews Jason Ditz
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Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses his debate with the “Prince of Darkness” (Richard Perle) on BBC Radio; the Obama administration’s refusal to apologize for the deadly November attack on a Pakistani military outpost – even though critical supply lines to Afghanistan remain closed as a consequence; the technological barrier preventing other countries from using drones the way the US does; and how the dearth of journalists in Syria allows the Western media to spin the narrative any way they choose.
MP3 here. (20:05)
Jason Ditz is the managing news editor at Antiwar.com. His op-ed pieces have been published in newspapers and other media around the world.
DavidDaoud
June 15th, 2012 at 8:01 am
Where can we listen to the actual debate between Perle and Jason Ditz ?
DavidDaoud
June 15th, 2012 at 8:02 am
Sorry, duh, got it now!
John Ellis
June 16th, 2012 at 11:38 am
The greedy who support an Empire — Never fooled by corruption done by their Empire
And those with wealth who support our government, the 51% most wealthy who always vote for a war-hawk government, they were most pleased with the way Perle used a smokescreen to hide their Empire.
Timbot2000
June 16th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Jason, your characterization of the Chinese drone program is incorrect. Their systems are actually quite close to that of the US now. To see actual Chinese drones go to the forum at ChinaDefense.com, Drones Sub-forum.
http://www.china-defense.com/smf/index.php?board=…
John Ellis
June 16th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
State of the art war — Drones may destroy only drones
All this pessimism fearing the worse-case evolution of drone warfare, but what if by intelligent design drones were to be the salvation of mankind?
For wars are always won by those with the greatest ability to kill, and if wars were severely restricted to drones killing only drones, with the winning nation given the right to enslave the looser…
But then — drones nuking drones, I do believe there would be some blowback.
Ryan
June 17th, 2012 at 6:12 am
I am SO jealous you got to flog Richard Perle on the air. I promoted the radio interview but I was fuming with jealousy. I hate hate HATE Richard Perle I even made a holiday for it. (any day ending in Y as well as Feb 28 especially)
popsiq
June 18th, 2012 at 3:49 am
Perle isn't the kind of person who would admit, or even realise, he'd been bested in a debate. Soulless sociopaths like Richard are, simply, right ….. all the time.
mojo
June 18th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Why would anyone want to even consider talking to this man, whom looks like a half man with a twit in his head and the other half looking like a jelly fish. This, whatever it is, with is friends like Paul Wolfowitz and their stupidities are the ones who started all this mess in the world of wimpier of vulture capitalism and neo fascism with George W. Bush in action doing these people a favor going to war in Iraq building up a mess of a messy situation. These are the people that needs to be prosecuted for their idiocy and for government to let Manning and all other US political prisoners go free.