Frontpagemag.com Has an excellent expose of the leadership of the ” Not in Our Name ” antiwar campaign. It seems that one of the primary founders of this group is a key figure in the quasi-cult Revolutionary Communist Party, a group so far out that they once regarded the American Communist Party as CIA stooges. The article is by John Perazzo
EMPIRE of the MIND There seems to be an increasingly thoughtless tendency to critically portray American foreign policy as ” Imperial ” or as an already existing ” Empire “. Granted, tossing around this epithet to describe any vaguely non-socialist country has been a favorite pastime of Marxists and academics since Hobson and Lenin’s day but the practice is reaching absurd proportions. Set aside that the scale and intentions of the Bush administration toward Iraq pale beside the efforts America made in Vietnam to say nothing of WWII, to call America an ” empire ” is make that word utterly meaningless. Iraq, dominated as it is by a Sunni minority is closer to being a mini-empire in practice than the United States will ever be. Here is one of the more cogent ” empire ” arguments made by conservative critic Paul Schroeder
Zenpundit is a blog dedicated to exploring the intersections of foreign policy, history, military theory, national security,strategic thinking, futurism, cognition and a number of other esoteric pursuits.
Customized Web Site & Blog Design
