Posts Tagged ‘CIA’
Blogging The Revolution: A Manifesto – The Foreign Policy of The Founding Fathers, Blowback in Iran
Blowback in Iran Ron Paul uses the overthrow of Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh of Iran in 1953 as a classic example of blowback. American and British intelligence worked together in overthrowing the legally and popularly elected government and replaced Prime Minister Mossadegh with the politically reliable but repressive Shah of Iran. A [...]
Freedom Watch: 22 April 2009
Part 1 Judge Andrew Napolitano, Shepherd Smith, and Trace Gallagher, discuss the recently released torture memos of the Bush administration. My respect for Shepherd Smith went way up after this. Trace Gallagher's Orwellian use of language by changing torture memo to interrogation memo is typical of what's going on in the country. Part [...]
Blogging The Revolution: A Manifesto – The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers, Blowback, Part 2
Foreign Interventionism and Blowback When Bill Clinton's secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, stated on 60 Minutes that half a million dead Iraqi children, as a result of the sanctions on Iraq during the 1990s, was "worth it," who could think that this would not cause resentment and hatred throughout the Arab world? If the united States [...]
Blogging The Revolution: A Manifesto – The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers, Blowback
After 9/11 The non-interventionism of the Founding Fathers became even more important after September 11, but was instead, sadly ignored. The American people quite properly wanted the attackers found and punished. They also wanted to know why America was attacked. This is a perfectly reasonable response and question. What was their motivation? [...]
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