Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The Reign of the Psychopaths

Feb 11 10:05

The Reign of the Psychopaths

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While watching events unfold these past weeks in Egypt, it became apparent to me that the United States is suffering from a foreign policy malady frighteningly analogous to psychopathic personality disorder.

That the Egyptian people have rebelled against such a regime should come as no surprise. And one would expect that the American government – itself the creation of a revolution against an authoritarian monarchy – would support their cause, at least morally if not materially.

Such an assumption, though, presumes the presence of a degree of empathy that our government simply no longer possesses. ….
[Michael Rivero's] Commentary:

The US has a long, unsavory, and quite well-documented history of putting, and keeping, thugs in power, because they are “our thugs”, and will maintain “stability” in those countries they run, usually with barbarous, merciless efficiency against their own people.

What those in the bowels of power in the US consistently fail to take into account is the reality that guns, bullets, and torture can hold a people down for only so long; after that, people start to understand that in order to achieve a better life, they have to take matters into their own hands, and do so.

Ask the people of Argentina who lived under the rule of Pinochet; ask the people of Iran who lived under the Shah; ask the people of Cuba who lived under the rule of Batista; ask the people of Romania who lived under Ceausescu, and ask the people of Egypt who have just made such a courageous stand against Mubarak, and they will tell you the same thing.

Ultimately, with an oppressive regime, there is a point of no return, and people find the courage to stand up, and demand something better, as just happened in Egypt.

Although one cannot predict where Suleiman’s government may go (or how long it may be able to hold on, after Mubarak’s ouster), look for a seachange in Egypt’s political landscape come September when general elections are to be held. …

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn!.

February 11th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized, militarism | Leave a comment |

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