Thursday, August 06, 2009

how US foreign policy is conducted

aug 5th, 2009

i am beginning to like these libertarians! lila rajiva pulls no punches. nor does arvind.

'benign' american interference abroad. with CIA/robin raphel back, expect all non-cong govts to fall. beware, NaMo!

1 comment:

Anand Rajadhyaksha said...

The Issue is simple: it is the business of US Business houses to use the US Government’s resources to- interfere in the rule of other countries, foment coups and revolutions, police, bomb, and spy on millions of people - so that their ventures remain safe, they become richer and become financially freer - with your money.

Please read Lt Gen Samuel Butler’s “War is a racket” for some timeless answers. They were applicable for the time he wrote about, they are applicable today, with some fascinating adjustment in figures. Inflation, you know!

Americans lost fathers, brothers, husbands, sons and fiances, just so that Americans companies could retain control over the oil in the Gulf. Had that not happened, there are any number of American intellectuals who would tell you that you would not have been able to afford driving your car. Don’t really know if they lost anyone, the politicians who sent the men out to die certainly protected their own. Why, the Prez who declared the war had an enviable record of service by evading action through the good offices of his powerful father.