[…] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]
[PDF file]: […] by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of Islamic […]
[PDF file]: […] also notes that the failure to topple Colonel Gaddafi ‘created a vacuum for international terrorism’. (He does not discuss UK involvement in funding various Islamist groups in Libya and Syria.) ‘Covert action helped mask decline in other places such as the Middle East. Yet it could only stem the tide of nationalism for so […]
[…] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]
[PDF file]: […] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]
