Jeremy Scahill on 9/11

[Paul Rigby]

Once again, we're looking towards a synthesis ala Peter Dale Scott, where things are not so simple as "the CIA runs the President" nor "the President runs the CIA" but rather that it is the Deep Political System which organizes, frames and defines many of the covert actions with which we are concerned.

The obvious, if rarely expressed, objection to find-sounding phrases like "it is the Deep Political System which organizes, frames and defines many of the covert actions with which we are concerned" is that a) such phrases aren't telling us very much; and b) they obscure a key reality - human decision making. Someone or some group chose course of action a) over course of action b) - who and why? A discourse that evades the identity of the perps is simply aiding the perps.

As to Chomsky being a "Zionist"- that's rather a stretch.

Blankfort demolishes your objection. Do read his piece.

It's always possible to play more radical than Thou (provocateurs do this all the time) but Chomsky is clearly an important critic of the policies of the Israeli State. I don't agree with him in every way but I certainly don't buy the extreme right-wing conspiracy model which often makes use of tropes like the putative world Jewish, er-Zionist conspiracy, broad use of "left gatekeeper" charges, and the like.

Ah, what a pity, you were doing so well. The old anti-sem ad hom. Sorry, won't do. Pointing out that Chomsky, Arnoni and Stone - to name but three - chose loyalty to Israel's interests over the truth of Dallas is merely to state a fact. If Zionists don't like it, tough.

All of this sort of gratuitous CIA-baiting seems to be both thoughtless and destructive to me. Isn't it time we moved beyond this, taking guidance from the exemplary lead of Peter Dale Scott?

"Gratuitous CIA-baiting" - you mean Angelton's SIG didn't run Oswald? I'm shocked, Austen, shocked I say...