[kj] ChangeTin, change

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Yeah, what is really amazing is just how sometimes openly blatant US 
decision-makers and elites can be about the utter contempt with which 
the hey hold the rest of the world. I found that quote from US Dep. 
Sec'y Paul Wolfowitz and World Bank President (retired because he 
promoted his vastly younger girlfriend on the org's payroll - ha!) with 
barely looking at all.


Like how about this doozy:


Q: *[H]ow do we describe "you guys?"*

William Kristol: There's so many different phrases, it's hard to know.

*Q: What do you like?*

William Kristol: I don't care. Kagan and I wrote an article in 1996, 
trying to lay out this worldview of foreign affairs. We called it 
"Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy." So I would take 
"neo-Reaganite," "neo-conservative," "hawk," "American imperialist." 
There are lots of different phrases.

From: 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/interviews/kristol.html


So, see, that is not ME, or some mythical rabid Marxist anti-war 
protester calling key US decision makers imperialists or war hawks -- 
that's one of THEMSELVES calling themselves that! Okay, fine, I will 
call them that, if you say so, sir. William Kristol was a high-ranking 
member of the Reagan and Bush 1 administrations and has since been a 
policy consultant, a prominent neo-conservative advocate.


-Oliver





GREG SLAWSON wrote:

>

> Peter, try reading instead of just watching pro-war news or whatever 

> you take in. For ex., the Christian Science Monitor (U.S newspaper) 

> and the Economist (British magazine) are good news sources. Better 

> yet, look at reports written by think-tanks that actually advise the 

> US government (such as teh Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral 

> Commission, probably the 2 most influential). Lots of the stuff we 

> "make up" can be found there.

>