Salon has a Q & A today with San Francisco writer Mark Hertsgaard, author of The Eagle’s Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World: “Recently, I was telling a journalist that we don’t realize how strongly most of the world opposes an attack on Iraq. And this journalist said, ‘Yes, but that’s what they said before the last Gulf War and they ended up all being happy that we went. And that’s what they said before Afghanistan and then they cheered us for going.’ But that’s the echo chamber of Washington. There’s a difference between us cajoling other countries into agreeing with what we’re doing and what’s happening with Iraq at the U.N. They basically realized that they can’t stop us. So we tell ourselves that we have approval when we bully them into it.” Read more.
January 6, 2009
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