Reply #35: Involved in is very different then leading or causing a massive grassroots movement

[Exultant Democracy]

Our massive and ballooning intelligence industrial complex has the resources on hand to have informants and agents within almost every movement, trade union and campus group in the middle east.

That doesn't change the fact that the prime directive of the big three intelligence groups involved in the middle east has been to assist and empower western-friendly strong men governments at the cost of democracy not the other way around as you would have us believe.

If we lived in a bizarro world were the Israelis and the US were anti-authoritarian and supported democracies then their wouldn't have been any need for the Arab spring. The US has had to be dragged into supporting every single one of these movements by overwhelming public opinion, not because it fit in with some well thought master plan.


Of course racist western imperialist have always denied brown people agency and the idea that this movement was caused by Western intelligence agencies fits very snugly within this tradition. What's old is new again.