Antiwar.com radio host Scott Horton and I had a jolly time exposing the frauds behind Afghan aid and other foreign policy charades.
It is amazing how Afghan aid would retain any credibility in the American media. Why the ignorance and the kowtowing to the Official Line from the White House, Pentagon, and Karzai?
Scott made an excellent analogy late in the show on the parallels between Waco and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
You can listen to the interview by clicking on the following MP3s –
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[Note: I am experimenting with recording the program via RadioSure. I will be curious whether the digital files will be of the same quality as those posted by Antiwar.com tomorrow or later this week.]
James Bovard
Jim, enjoyed it – as always. You and Horton always make a good tag team!
I like Horton’s intervention script: bad man (usually ours, or had our approval, at some point in the past), has weapons, uses them on his own or neighbors, will use them on us or our allies (latter subject to change at any moment), cannot talk, must bomb/invade.
Incidentally, when was the last time Karzai was seen in public?
Forgot to ask: isn’t that the WWII/History Channel, Chamberlain/Churchill/Hitler script? Is that its modern origin? Or has it always been there in American History? Savages (American Indians), evil Southern slaveholders have to be invaded (when the rest of the world sorted it outt more peacefully), destructive imperial Spanish in the waters off Cuba, etc., etc.
Wes, thanks for listening and thanks for the feedback.
dunno when Karzai was last seen – it’s more fun to keep track of Hillary.
on the History Channel script – I guess that ‘morality play’ approach simplifies narratives immensely…
Karzai siting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16059147
Look at the NATO idiot soldier behind him….!!!