Статья Пола Крейга Робертса "На этот раз мир не покупается на ложь"
Под катом статья бывшего помощника главного казначея США в администрации Рейгана, бывшего заместителя главреда Уолл Стрит Джорнал, Пола Робертса. Академичиские регалии Робертса включают работу в Центре стратегических и международных исследований; в Гуверовском центре Стэнфордского университета; и преподавние в университете Джорджтаун. Президент Франции Франсуа Митеран наградил Робертса орденом Почетного легиона.
Робертс пишет, что СМИ США на протяжении последних восьми лет выступали в роли министерства пропаганды для режима военных преступников и изо дня в день промывали мозги американскому народу, неспособному на самостоятельное мышление. Он приводит слова Геббельса о том, что народ легко обмануть: все, что для этого требуется, это объявить, что на нас совершено нападение и размахивать флагами. Данный подход сработал в американском случае. Далее Робертс подробно перечисляет количество жертв в иракской войне и призывает задуматься о том, каких масштабов достигли бы жертвы, если бы неоконы во главе с Чейни начали войну в Иране...
Мне еще не попадались статьи американцев, в которых вещи бы назывались с такой прямотой. Робертс клеймит администрацию Буша, как подстрекателей этнических чисток в Южной Осетии; убедительно описывает причины отчуждения европейских партнеров от американской политики; разоблачает лицемерие утвреждений Маккейна... Есть в его тексте и про Украину. Вывод Робертса: неоконы самое страшное зло для человечества. К сожалению, нет времени переводить всю статью, но рекомендую всем. Пропустите через гугл транслит и давже в таком виде не упустите основные аргументы Робертса.
This Time, the World Is Not Buying It
by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, August 22, 2008
The success of the Bush Regime's propaganda, lies, and deception with
gullible and inattentive Americans since 9/11 has made it difficult for
intelligent, aware people to be optimistic about the future of the United
States. For almost 8 years the US media has served as Ministry of
Propaganda for a war criminal regime. Americans incapable of thinking for
themselves, reading between the lines, or accessing foreign media on the
Internet have been brainwashed.
As the Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, said, it is easy to deceive a
people. You just tell them they have been attacked and wave the flag.
It certainly worked with Americans.
The gullibility and unconcern of the American people has had many victims.
There are 1.25 million dead Iraqis. There are 4 million displaced Iraqis.
No one knows how many are maimed and orphaned.
Iraq is in ruins, its infrastructure destroyed by American bombs,
missiles, and helicopter gunships.
We do not know the death toll in Afghanistan, but even the American puppet
regime protests the repeated killings of women and children by US and NATO
troops.
We don't know what the death toll would be in Iran if Darth Cheney and the
neocons succeed in their plot with Israel to bomb Iran, perhaps with
nuclear weapons.
What we do know is that all this murder and destruction has no
justification and is evil. It is the work of evil men who have no qualms
about lying and deceiving in order to kill innocent people to achieve
their undeclared agenda.
That such evil people have control over the United States government and
media damns the American public for eternity.
America will never recover from the shame and dishonor heaped upon her by
the neoconned Bush Regime.
The success of the neocon propaganda has been so great that the opposition
party has not lifted a finger to rein in the Bush Regime's criminal
actions. Even Obama, who promises "change" is too intimidated by the
neocon's success in brainwashing the American population to do what his
supporters hoped he would do and lead us out of the shame in which the
neoconned Bush Regime has imprisoned us.
This about sums up the pessimistic state in which I existed prior to the
go-ahead given by the Bush Regime to its puppet in Georgia to ethnically
cleanse South Ossetia of Russians in order to defuse the separatist
movement. The American media, aka, the Ministry of Lies and Deceit, again
accommodated the criminal Bush Regime and proclaimed "Russian invasion" to
cover up the ethnic cleansing of Russians in South Ossetia by the Georgian
military assault.
Only this time, the rest of the world didn't buy it. The many years of
lies - 9/11, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda connections,
yellowcake, anthrax attack, Iranian nukes, "the United States doesn't
torture," the bombings of weddings, funerals, and children's soccer games,
Abu Ghraib, renditions, Guantanamo, various fabricated "terrorist plots,"
the determined assault on civil liberties - have taken their toll on
American credibility. No one outside America any longer believes the US
media or the US government.
The rest of the world reported the facts - an assault on Russian civilians
by American- and Israeli-trained and -equipped Georgian troops.
The Bush Regime, overcome by hubris, expected Russia to accept this act of
American hegemony. But the Russians did not, and the Georgian military was
sent fleeing for its life.
The neoconned Republican response to the Russian failure to follow the
script and to be intimidated by the "unipower" was so imbecilic that it
shattered the brainwashing to which Americans had succumbed.
McCain declared: "In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations."
Imagine the laughs Jon Stewart will get out of this on the Daily Show. In
the early years of the 21st century the United States has already invaded
two countries and has been beating the drums for attacking a third.
President Bush, the chief invader of the 21st century, echoed McCain's
claim that nations don't invade other nations.
This dissonant claim shocked even brainwashed Americans, as readers'
emails reveal. If in the 21st century countries don't invade other
countries, what is Bush doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what are the
naval armadas and propaganda arrayed against Iran about?
Have two of the worst warmongers of modern times - Bush and McCain -
called off the US/Israeli attack on Iran? If McCain is elected president,
is he going to pull US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan as "nations
don't invade other nations," or is President Bush going to beat him to it?
We all know the answer.
The two stooges are astonished that the Americans have taught hegemony to
Russians, who were previously operating, naively perhaps, on the basis of
good will.
Suddenly the Western Europeans have realized that being allied with the
United States is like holding a tiger by the tail. No European country
wants to be hurled into war with Russia. Germany, France, and Italy must
be thanking God they blocked Georgia's membership in NATO.
The Ukraine, where a sick nationalism has taken hold funded by the neocon
National Endowment for Democracy, will be the next conflict between
American pretensions and Russia. Russia is being taught by the neocons
that freeing the constituent parts of its empire has not resulted in their
independence but in their absorption into the American Empire.
Unless enough Americans can overcome their brainwashed state and the
rigged Diebold voting machines, turn out the imbecilic Republicans and
hold the neoconservatives accountable for their crimes against humanity, a
crazed neocon US government will provoke nuclear war with Russia.
The neoconservatives represent the greatest danger ever faced by the
United States and the world. Humanity has no greater enemy.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during
President Reagan's first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William
E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President
Francois Mitterrand.