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Oh company of al-Ba'th, you pride of lions, Oh pinnacle of pride and of inherited glory, Advance, bringing terror, to a certain victory And resurrect the time of al-Rashid in our land! We are a generation who give all and toil to the utmost. - Shafiq Abdul Jabar Al-Kamali, Iraqi poet |
The US is a rogue state
Dagbladet has a brilliant interview with John le Carre, where he puts the finger on the problem with America: In the US, Bush is surrounded by ultra-conservatives and ultra-religious characters. These have managed to convince Blair that their way is the right one. [..] The US has become a country where many "disappear" into internment camps. We all know about the Guantanamo camp on Cuba, but the Americans have several such places where the interned are not allowed access to defense lawyers. [..] There's nothing new about this. The US has always been a rogue state, walking to the beat of a different drum - the war drum. When by chance it has found itself on the right side of history, its contribution has always been tainted with a callousness towards human suffering, and a fanaticism rooted in its Christian-nationalist origins, that even its apologists can't overlook. The US did aid the Soviet destruction of another form of Christian-nationalism, Hitler's Nazi Germany, but they reduced Western Europe to rubble in the process, necessitating an expensive rebuilding process that today is mirrored in the battle-scarred nation of Iraq. The followup was even more disgraceful. In a betrayal only rivaled by Hitler's in 1941, the US turned on its former Soviet ally, exposed and exhausted after a long war, and began to terrorize it and its socialist friends, (leading to its eventual destruction.) The point is not to play down the current evil of America - we should never lose our ability to be outraged by the US - only to show that it is far older than its critics often realize. Their evil is almost timeless and supernatural, a quality that sticks to them at every turn they make. Slavery, the Native-American holocaust, imperialism, the Cold War - the US played a central role in all of these, choosing the side of evil with a frightening consistency. Le Carre aims his verbal artillery at the British as well: I have no doubts that the journalist Gilligan at the BBC was right, and that the report was "sexed up". More importantly the hearings shows that the ingelligence service has been politicized and lets itself be directed by the politicians. Previously surveillers and spies kept their independence from the politicians, but no more. This is a bit naive - as a former British spy Le Carre perhaps overestimates the former independence of his own service. Western intelligence has of course always had one goal, and one goal alone: to undermine international socialism. If that isn't a "politicized" goal, I don't know what is. But his larger point is well taken. Le Carre rightly ignores accusations that Andrew Gilligan himself "sexed up" his own article, originally a far-right slur that the embattled BBC, hated both by its own government and the corporate media, has lately seen itself forced to adopt. The BBC has been moving towards the right for years, quiety and slowly. How long can it defend its independence and integrity from the Bush-lapdog Blair and the oligarch Ruper Murdoch? But there's always hope as long as dissenters like John le Carre keep pointing out the truth.
The Commissar | 2003-11-12 04:00 |
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