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Treason of the Intellectuals - Hedges
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Hedges splits his attack between that on war boostering liberal hawks, e.g., Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and neglect of the Palestinian plight.

Yet did not Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton invite Yassir Arafat to their White House more than any other guest? Did their efforts earn the 2000 Intifada and waterboarding in the Lake of Forgetfulness.

Credit where credit is due, please.

War in Iraq required a total buy-in of the Tower Trick, and Chelsea worried the Bush tax cuts would prevent improving the air quality Hillary deplored. The statements of the SecState emeritus and present are indistinguishable from the much bemoaned neocons.

Hedges laments the loss of a billet at the NYT but if he eschews PEN on account of Nossel why not the Old Gray home of Walter Duranty.

Wherever one is is a fine place to start--

--and witness Coleen Rowley on US cooption of human rights: she took Robert S. Mueller to task over criminal negligence of her flying lesson reports as a special agent pre-Tower.

Mueller whom Obama kept on for two additional years, as he kept on Robert Gates--who was too weak on Libya for Hillary's taste.

And it's a taste for blood--and the contortions surrounding Benghazi were to avoid talking about the shiny new war aka Arab Spring

embodying all those soft power elements extolled by Hillary and Nossel.

In it all I do not see the Old Business cleaned up, while all that is new is built upon it

that is, the state killed Kennedy that war might continue as the business model

The towers came down in the manner of the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, Tonkin Gulf, your casus belli here

President Kennedy sought human rights not the narrower civil rights; a departure from colonial exploitation and a withdrawal from interference

Now it's interference all the time on every channel and no one questions immunity for Los Zetas, arms for Sinaloa and MB, Road to Mali, Road to Syria

The CIA is used in all of this, and has been identified as providing key players Dulles, Angleton, Helms, Joannides, Phillips, McCord, Hunt, and more

How is the infiltration of PEN different from that of the National Students Association, how is Hedges, Walsh, Rowley indictment different from Agee

Now in the fiftieth year of the Warren-Dulles obscenity, Kissinger and Rockefeller live

What an interesting conversation Hedges might have with Kerry regarding the veteran who took it to the Senate in 1971 and has become a footman

The mad woman might demand wild-eyed and waving, what difference does it make

The current outrage of the ideal at the compromise of the real might give a bow to those who've been marginalized and ridiculed for fifty years

In for a penny, in for a pound

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Treason of the Intellectuals - Hedges - by Phil Dragoo - 04-04-2013, 08:50 AM

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