In Chicago, WLS drive-time radio interviews former CIA official Michael Scheuer (thanks to this neocon site and Mark). Excerpts:
Sixteen years after the start of this war, we still hear Mr. Obama and John McCain and Mitt Romney and the British Prime Minister and the rest of them teling their electorates that we’re at war because they hate women in the work place and they hate elections and liberties….
They’re at war with us because of what our government does, not the way we live at home. As long as we are not adult enough to accept that… it certainly means that we ought to know that our policies are having an immense cost.
Host: What policies?
Surely our support for the Saudi Police state, our presence on the Arab peninsula, in Iraq, in Yemen, in Afghanistan, our unqualified support for Israel. The intersting thing sir is that these were all outlined by bin Laden in his declaration of war in 1996. Our political leaders in both parties have consistently told Americans in essence, forget what our enemy is saying, we know better what they’re thinking than they do. So we’re in this position that we believe that they’re all madmen and there’s only a limited number of them that we can kill one at a time.
Host: Would you change our policy with Israel and Saudi?
We can’t sir, we can’t do either one. The Israeli lobby controls our politics and the Saudi Arabians controls the most important reserves of oil. The United States government is like Gulliver, it’s strapped to the ground…. We’re stuck in the middle east and we’ll have to keep taking the pounding we’ve been taking….
Because we’ve taken no cognizance of [our enemies’ motivation], we’ve given the next generation away to the Islamists. We’ve made no dent in the appeal of people who want to get us out of their neighborhood…
You don’t have to change your policies. If you want to support the Israelis [that’s fine].. But we ought not to believe that the enemy is not inspired by that…
That’s actually pretty mild for Scheuer….I’ve heard him be much more forthcoming about US-Israel.
Scheuer has often been an enigma to me as I’ve heard him say many things that qualify him as a truth-teller, and others that I felt fall into the category of “Islamo-fascism” demonization.
I regard him like anyone, I guess. I appreciate when they’re being truthful and candid, and question their agenda when their position conflicts with the facts as _I_ understand them (granted I’m not expert in anything).
2 things
A comment about the French economy but it is just as valid about American lobby Jews
“However, his column underplays the role of path dependency, where initial conditions influence what follows.”
and look at this for a path :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/02/maurice-sendak-interview
“The monsters from Wild Things were based on his own relatives. They would visit his house in Brooklyn when he was growing up (“All crazy – crazy faces and wild eyes”) and pinch his cheeks until they were red. Looking back, he sees how desperate they all were, these first-generation immigrants from Poland, with no English, no education and, although they didn’t know it in 1930, a family back home facing extinction in the concentration camps. At the time, all he saw was grotesques.
My father belonged to a Jewish social club. The day of my barmitzvah he got word [through the club] that he had, no longer, a family. Everyone was gone. And he laid down in bed. I remember this so vividly. And my mother said to me, ‘Papa can’t come.’ And I was having the big party at the colonial club, the old mansion in Brooklyn. And I said, ‘How can Papa not come to my barmitzvah?’ And I screamed at him, ‘You gotta get up, you gotta get up!’ And of course he did. And the only thing I remember is looking at him when the guests burst into For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow. And my father’s face was vivid, livid, and I knew I had done something very bad, that I had made him suffer more than he had to. This 13-year-old ersatz man.”
They were traumatised people, his parents, angry, fierce, “nuts”, and understandably so.”
Israel is so much unworked out trauma
Now that I’ve broken through on the issue of Osama Bin Laden being a CIA asset, and that he died in Dec. 2001, I need to reevaluate everything that I ever read on this. That includes Michael Scheuer, the “former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit”. Is he a dupe or is he a disinformation agent?
He said that while at the CIA, there were 10 attempts on Bin Laden, only to be told to stand down. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8527515/The-bin-Laden-hunter-ex-CIA-man-had-bin-Laden-in-his-sights-10-times.html
I’m going to say that he was a dupe at the CIA, then a disinformation agent. After the bogus “killing” of Bin Laden last year, he is trying to subtly leak information like the above article, without being so explicit that he gets himself killed.
RE: “thanks to this neocon site [American Thinker]” ~ Weiss
MY COMMENT: Or “Americun Stinker”, as the cads refer to it at Sadly No!