Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The U.S. Exercises Its Power Clandestinely and Overtly Quite Frequently
January 14, 2015
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as posted by the channelWatch the full Democracy Now! interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: “While we might sit back and wax eloquent about international law and about human rights and so forth, what the world is really about is power. The United States exercises its power clandestinely and overtly quite frequently, since the end of the Cold War more so than during the Cold War. We can argue about the reasons, and there are complex reasons, usually, for invasions like Panama. And we always put the rhetoric, as you played, Amy, George H.W. Bush in this case, up, about liberty and democracy and freedom and so forth, and it is rarely, if ever, about those commodities. What it’s about is raw power—economic, financial, sometimes personal power. It’s about power. And that’s the way it is with great powers, and that’s the way it is in the world. We can lament it all day long. It’s still there confronting us every day.”
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