Former Nixon Diplomat calls BushCo "WORST REGIME in American history""

[ElementaryPenguin]

If you haven't read it - "A Call to Conscience"" - is a great piece by Roger Morris, which calls for Americans in foreign service to resign rather than cooperate with the evil and berserk Bush Crime Administration!

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0525-14.htm

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[Loonman]

1. Wow

He would know, having worked with Nixon.

[ElementaryPenguin]

2. Worked with LBJ as well. They're all coming out of the woodworks now.

To me, it's kind of touching how many of the old-timers are coming out trying to do something to save this country.

[ewagner]

6. True

I have a very warm spot in my heart for the "old timers". They still believe in the Country.

[JHB]

7. Then again, some old-timers....

{cough}Chuck Colson{cough} only rear their heads to help the Shrubbies drive it over the cliff...

[ElementaryPenguin]

8. The old repuke footsoldiers - and the aged mafia dons like Kissinger

...I don't exactly have many soft spots for them!

:puke:

[Jacobin]

11. Gawd whispered in Chucky's ear that Bush is jesus number 2

Chucky doesnt count. He gave his brain away to the fundies.

[Imalittleteapot]

3. Good link to send to repukes

even though it will not change their votes.

[shoelace414]

4. The real question

Will the next republican president (there will be one) follow the same neo-con policies that Bush is following? Since Bush's inner circle all came from Reagan and Bush. OR will Bush Co drive a steak through the heart of the neo-conservative movement.

[ewagner]

5. What a great article

It's frightening that I didn't know about the Foreign Service Officers mentioned in the article who resigned over the Iraq war. I thought I was paying strict attention but somehow I missed that.

[H2O Man]

9. great article

Thanks for sharing it with us.

[TrogL]

10. He mentioned "Great Game" - he believes in Oil Wars!

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[jayavarman]

12. Do you even know what the 'great game' refers to??

evidently not. Here' some info for ya:

The Great Game is a term, usually attributed to Arthur Connolly, used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The term was later popularized by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his work, Kim. The classic 'Great Game' period is generally regarded as running from approximately 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a second less intensive phase followed.

At the start of the 19th century there were some 2000 miles separating British India and the outlying regions of the Tsarist Russia. Much of the land in between was unmapped. The cities of Bukhara, Khiva, Merv and Tashkent were virtually unknown to outsiders. As Imperial Russian expansion threatened to collide with the increasing British dominance of the Indian sub-continent, the two great empires played out a subtle game of exploration, espionage and imperialistic diplomacy throughout Central Asia. The conflict always threatened, but never quite managed to break out into direct warfare between the two sides. The centre of activity was in Afghanistan.

There could be some interesting 'great game' comments to be made if you know your history . . . . From a historical prespective, however the 'great game' had absolutely NOTHING to do with oil

[Octafish]

13. OK. So there's TWO Great Games.

THIS one's about the OIL.

The Great Game Resumed

Author: John Pilger.

This is an edited extract from The New Rulers of the World, by John Pilger, published this month by Pan Macmillan Australia. Date: 03/07/2002

In his latest book, The New Rulers of the World, John Pilger argues that the ``war on terrorism" is a charade, masking an all-powerful oppressor that dares not speak its name. IT IS nearly 10 months since September 11, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked and humane response to that momentous day, the rulers of the world have since ground our language into a paean of cliches and lies about the ``war on terrorism" when the most enduring menace, and source of terror, is them.

SNIP...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, a new opportunity arose. The economic and political crisis in the developing world, largely the result of post-colonialism, such as the blood-letting in the Middle East and the destruction of commodity markets in Africa, served as retrospective justification for imperialism. Although the word remains unspeakable, the Western intelligentsia, conservatives and liberals alike, boldly echo the preferred euphemism, ``civilisation".

From Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, an ally of crypto-fascists, to impeccably liberal commentators, the new imperialists share a concept whose true meaning relies on a comparison with those who are uncivilised, inferior and might challenge the ``values" of the West.

The great divisions opening up between the rich and poor are reduced to platitudes of how best ``we" deal with ``them" an attitude expressed in the return of xenophobia and racism towards refugees, led aggressively by the Howard Government. There are many blueprints for the new imperialism, but none as cogent as that of Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to several American presidents and one of the most influential gurus in Washington, whose 1997 book is said to have biblical authority among the George W. Bush gang and its ``endless war" intelligentsia. In The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives, Brzezinski writes: ``Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some 500 years ago, Eurasia has been the centre of world power."

CONTINUED...

http://www.progressivelabour.org/great.htm

BTW: A hearty welcome to DU jayavarman! WTF ya been?

EDIT: fucking html

[Ironpost]

14. As is said, it takes one to know one.