Saturday, April 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton should read " The Arrogance of Power " by Senator J. William Fulbright

Protests in Baghdad theaten U.S. puppet government ?
   Our New Colonialist wars of occupation-all miserable failures- have been mostly ignored by the American presidential candidates. But " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders at least admitted that the Iraq War was the greatest foreign policy blunder in U.S. history. 

   Listening to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz one wonders how our " democracy " recommends itself to these troubled Middle East countries. 

   We have learned nothing from moral catastrophe of the Vietnam War ? Hillary Clinton should read a book titled " The Arrogance of Power " by Senator J. William Fulbright. I recall that young Bill Clinton was " tutored " by this Senator Fulbright. 

   Today's neo-liberals are rather obtuse.




   [  "  Mr. Clinton worked on the Senator's Washington staff in 1966 and 1967 and followed him to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. During those years the future President imbibed the fierce antiwar mood of the Fulbright office, and that no doubt influenced his own desire to avoid military service in Southeast Asia.

For the young Arkansan, Senator Fulbright was also a role model in a deeper, more personal sense  "]


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BAGHDAD -- Anti-government protesters tore down walls and poured into the Iraqi capital's ...

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