17-05-2008 Update: And they do exist. Here’s the latest: Matthis Chiroux
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.”
Like many Kiwis on the net I enjoy reading Russell Brown’s blog, Hard News, but every now and then something goes terribly terribly wrong.
Kirk MacGibbon, a New Zealander living in New York, says that Kiwi’s are prejudice against Americans and that this comes from, amongst other things, “their limited understanding of American foreign policy.”
But we’re not the only ones to lack understanding. Much of the world misunderstands U.S. foreign policy, especially those who have to deal with it at the end of a gun barrel.
A few points to keep in mind if you’re bothering to follow the current propaganda campaign being waged against Iran.
A recent poll of U.S. troops in Iraq shows that 85% say the mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9 – 11 attacks.”
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve run into right-wingers who seem to have an unwavering belief that the crimes of their foes are be loudly proclaimed and harshly punished while their own crimes are to be wholly justified in the pursuit of their ideology. The ends justifies the means apparently.
A new documentary details the the use of white phosphorus against Iraqi people during the U.S. assault on Fallujah in November last year.
Scott Ritter, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, writing for Aljazeera, argues that the invasion of Iran has already begun, much the same way as the invasion of Iraq begun in the summer of 2002.