Rob Kall: I wonder though, if part of the reason it's
losing is because of some of the positions it's taken that are not moral, like
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Paul Craig
Roberts: As I said, with all it's
failures, nevertheless, who else ever speaks up for the downtrodden?
Rob Kall: OK.
Now the other topic is one that is something you write a lot about, and
that's Israel and the Middle East.
What's your take on the current situation there? Obama just went there. Impressions?
Paul Craig
Roberts: Of the Obama visit -- you know --
you could come to the conclusion that he went there to make Israel apologize to
Turkey so that they can get united and take on Syria and Iran. If that's the case, then it's just more
duplicity, more deception. The fact that
the American president goes to Israel is a sign of the enormous political power
Israel holds over the United States government.
I mean, the Roman Emperor didn't go to other countries, they came to
him.
And so now we've had the President of the so-called Hegemonic
Superpower go over to some tiny little country, whose existence is totally
dependent on the President of the United States, to go over there to pay his
homage and show that, "Here I am." Now,
that's got to tell you that things are out of balance, that Israel has far too
much power over the United States, and is using that power for it's own
purposes in the Middle East. And what we
see happening progressively is the breakup of countries. The Americans invasion don't bring freedom
and democracy, they bring civil war and permanent chaos.
I mean, Iraq is on the same level of violence that it was in during the
worst of the occupation by us. Libya is
disintegrated, warring factions. They're
trying to do the same thing to Pakistan with all the drone strikes in all the
various provinces. Syria is being broken
up, why is the United States and Israel supporting Islamists against a secular
government? It's the secular government
that always sat on the terrorists, that suppressed the Islamists. That's why we say they're dictators. They suppress the Islamists. That's what Saddam Hussein did.
Rob Kall: You know a couple of months ago I interviewed
Noam Chomsky and he says pretty much the same thing.
Paul Craig
Roberts: Well, he's right. What we're leaving is all these destroyed
political entities, none of them whom then can get in the way of us or
Israel. And that's what they're doing to
Syria, and then it'll be Lebanon. They
want to get rid of Hezbollah and Hamas, and then Israel can steal Southern
Lebanon and get the water resources.
Iran is sitting there waiting, and it really remains to be seen whether
the Russians or the Chinese put down a foot heavy enough that we shy away from
that, or whether they're not
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