You can’t bomb a country, fracture its society, and then act surprised when the same failed leaders keep resurfacing. Maliki’s comeback isn’t a twist—it’s the logical outcome of a system built on crisis and sustained by it.
I'm so glad we destroyed the threat of the "mushroom cloud" per Bush W. I always think of the quote from Madeleine Albright. An excellent example of US policy towards the world.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl discussed with the then-United Nations ambassador how Iraq had been suffering from the sanctions placed on the country following 1991's Gulf War.
"We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima," Stahl said. "And, you know, is the price worth it?"
"I think that is a very hard choice," Albright answered, "but the price, we think, the price is worth it."
In the run-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, Harold Pinter wrote a poem called “Democracy”: There’s no escape. The big pricks are out. They’ll fu*k everything in sight.
Watch your back. (British playwright, poet, and activist who later received the Nobel Prize for
literature). You can see his acceptance speech on YouTube. There were big marches against that war in US but somehow I hear that people were for that war now.
You can’t bomb a country, fracture its society, and then act surprised when the same failed leaders keep resurfacing. Maliki’s comeback isn’t a twist—it’s the logical outcome of a system built on crisis and sustained by it.
Trump in the Middle East, NATO his whole foreign policy is like having a bull in a China shop. This
isn't mentioning his nazi style domestic policy.
I'm so glad we destroyed the threat of the "mushroom cloud" per Bush W. I always think of the quote from Madeleine Albright. An excellent example of US policy towards the world.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl discussed with the then-United Nations ambassador how Iraq had been suffering from the sanctions placed on the country following 1991's Gulf War.
"We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima," Stahl said. "And, you know, is the price worth it?"
"I think that is a very hard choice," Albright answered, "but the price, we think, the price is worth it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_VnVlFhXU
In the run-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, Harold Pinter wrote a poem called “Democracy”: There’s no escape. The big pricks are out. They’ll fu*k everything in sight.
Watch your back. (British playwright, poet, and activist who later received the Nobel Prize for
literature). You can see his acceptance speech on YouTube. There were big marches against that war in US but somehow I hear that people were for that war now.
Really interesting piece
We MUST get TRUMP OUT of the cabal that is pushing war and autocracy.