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Gareth Porter interviewed by Scott Horton on AWR (3/3)
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9:44Now PlayingScott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter
July 19th, 2008
Gareth Porter, reporter for IPS News, discusses the fight between the "realists" and hawks in the Bush administration, the routine where Rice gets what she wants, but then Cheney makes her efforts meaningless -- as in the case of William Burns' trip to Geneva, George Bush Jr.'s complete inability to lead -- thank goodness, crying wolf, the public's distracted impotence to stop a war they oppose, the relative influence of the Israeli Lobby on Middle East policy in Congress and the White House, Ariel Sharon's preference for the order of future regime changes, speculation that Cheney may have "learned" a bunch of nonsense about a necessary clash of civilizations from Prinston historian Bernard Lewis after 9/11, the War Party's former(?) belief in regime change from the air.
MP3 here. (30:38)
Dr. Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on U.S. national security policy who has been independent since a brief period of university teaching in the 1980s. Dr. Porter is the author of four books, the latest of which is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005). He has written regularly for Inter Press Service on U.S. policy toward Iraq and Iran since 2005.
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