JM: What contact, if any, did you have with radical groups like the Black Panthers and the Weathermen, whose members were investigated, pursued, incarcerated, or in some cases, murdered, by our government?
WB: I knew individual members, some wrote for the Free Press, but I personally was never a member of any group. In later years, I was a member of Trotskyist groups in the US and the UK.
JM: While there are distinct parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan/Iraq, there are also a number of differences. Would you kindly lend us your insight by briefly comparing and contrasting the two?
JM: What did your work with Philip Agee, former CIA agent and author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary, entail?
WB: I didn't work with him so much as with other people in London who had a relationship with him. We were engaged in exposing covert CIA officers in the US embassy.
JM: You publicly supported Ralph Nader’s bids for the presidency. I have been repeatedly lambasted for voting for Nader. How would you respond to critics who claim that voting outside the deeply corrupt duopoly is a “wasted vote”?
WB: It would be hard to imagine a more wasted vote than voting for someone you don't like or support. I should add that I think that most people who voted for Nader would not have voted at all if he was not a candidate. So for all these people, Nader votes did not rob the Democrats of a vote.
JM: When can we expect another book from you?
WB: I don't know. I'm sort of burnt out. I'm not an author who feels obliged to keep turning out book after book. I have to see a gap to fill.
JM: You words here: "I'm committed to fighting U.S. foreign policy, the greatest threat to peace and happiness in the world, and being in the United States is the best place for carrying out the battle. This is the belly of the beast, and I try to be an ulcer inside of it." As a veteran of this struggle, you are a true inspiration to the rest of us aspiring ulcers. What words of advice and encouragement do you have for us?
WB: See my reply above about education. And when you're in ideological conflict with one of the bad guys, and he's mouthing the usual patriotic/conservative clichés, don't be shy of challenging any of those clichés. He's so unused to having them challenged that he's often thrown for a loss. Like always, question the motivation of the US in their interventions from a MORAL point of view. We have morality on our side -- look at Iraq, et al. The conservatives have a very difficult time dealing with this.
As we can plainly see, these two men—Blum and Miller-- are representative of that nefarious counter-culture which began to rear its ugly head in the sixties, aborted our valiant efforts to save Vietnam, and persists to this very day. Their utopian, and let’s be candid here, utterly inane attempts to universally apply moral principles such as compassion, justice, and human dignity are roadblocks to American progress and success.
As we know, civilization would devolve into chaos if the United States collapsed. Ergo, regardless of the cost in human lives or damage to the environment, the truly moral thing to do is to pursue America’s interests.
Now who has morality on their side?
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