Paul Jay interviews Noam Chomksy on U.S. policy toward Iran:
Suppose it was true that Iran is helping insurgents in Iraq. I mean, wasn’t the United States helping insurgents when the Russians invaded Afghanistan? Did we think there was anything wrong with that? I mean, Iraq’s a country that was invaded and is under military occupation. You can’t have a serious discussion about whether someone else is interfering in it. The basic assumption underlying the discussion is that we own the world.”
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If the U.S invades Iran it works like this;
they invaded Iran because it helped Iraq, they invaded Iraq because they helped Afghansitan, they invaded Afghanistan because they helped the Taliban.
The travelling U.S. roadshow, coming to a neighbourhood near you.
(p.s. the link with afghanistan is tenuous i know but it helps with the flow). never let the facts get in the way of a good story right.….
· Hi Christiaan, glad you’re blogging again — I checked through the NZ winter but forgot for the last two months.
· I agree with Chomsky: “Iraq’s a country that was invaded and is under military occupation. You can’t have a serious discussion about whether someone else is interfering in it. The basic assumption underlying [such a] discussion is that we [Americans] own the world.”
· Years before George W Bush was appointed US president (by the US Supreme Court; not elected) I was saying that, about the Americans I knew of. It’s extraordinary hubris; hundreds of millions with a common solipsism (“the universe revolves around us, it’s for our use; nobody else counts, only us”). Self-centred.
· Naturally there are exceptions whom I would call ‘ordinary people’, but my impression is that those exceptions (including most Americans who’ve come to stay in NZ) are a much smaller fraction of the US population than in all other nations.
· I work to bolster the self-confidence of the few hundred ‘ordinary people’, Americans who belong to a couple of e-mail lists including:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/90PercentReduction
— since they know how rare they are there. I try to assure them that they are not alone, most people in the OECD are like these rare Americans.
David.
– (David MacClement) Civis Mundi; davd AT orcon.net.nz ZL1ASX
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Hi David, thanks, yes it’s been a while. Been a very busy year at work and hanging out with the Mrs!