Oh, haha, people in other countries are crazy. Oh, they believe such crazy things. They believe in conspiracy theories. They are so primitive and naive. They are not well-informed like Americans. Oh, they are so paranoid.
One result is that nearly all of American policy toward Pakistan is conducted in secret, a fact that serves only to further feed conspiracies. American military leaders slip quietly in and out of the capital; the Pentagon uses networks of private spies; and the main tool of American policy here, the drone program, is not even publicly acknowledged to exist.Yes, I cannot imagine how extremely secretive military policies, the most significant of which involves using flying robots to murder people, could lead to conspiratorial thinking! It is so crazy! I know that if my family were vaporized by some invisible robotic angel of death, I would definitely conclude that the remote operator represented a people and government who were seeking to forge strong bonds of mutual interest in order to move together forward toward a better understanding of our reciprocal interests in building a forward-moving partnership for cooperation together.
Oh, and by the way:
Lawyers in Pakistan have a strong streak of political Islam. Mr. Habib, who has had militants as clients, argues that Al Qaeda is an American invention.If by invention, he means creation, then he's, you know, RIGHT!
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C'mon dude, it worked on Lost, didn't it?
Conspiracy theories doesn't mean what the NYT thinks it means.
when 60% of united statesians believe jeebus is coming back to save them personally, each & every darling one, in their lifetime, one of whom became POTUS & apparently directed policy from such beliefs...aww fuck it dude. let's go bowling.
I'm just glad the smoking gun wasn't a mushroom cloud.
Greenwald beat you to the punch on this. His post is a pretty great read.
also, ya know, not that this has any literal connection to Nam, but "The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner...We value life and human dignity. They don't care about life and human dignity."
Thanks IOZ for reading the Grey Lady so I don't have to -- man o man I can't wait for the death of the newspaper.
Good grief. Do you think that reporter even read this article from 10 days ago in his own goddam paper? About a mysterious and probably illegal US spy network inside Pakistan? Is that just an anti-semitic conspiracy theory too?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/world/16contractors.html?fta=y
My ancestors used to believe in conspiracies. They called those flying things Valkyries.
The NY Times reached the point of absurdity a while ago, but with this article they've taken it to another level. It's almost sublime how ridiculous their propaganda is.
Ayman al-Zawahiri wrote a book, Knights Under the Prophet's Banner, that gives the history of al Qaeda. He writes that they didn't have any connection to the U.S (or Pakistani) government.
Just what you'd expect an agent-provocateur to say!
I know that if my family were vaporized by some invisible robotic angel of death, I would definitely conclude that the remote operator represented a people and government who were seeking to forge strong bonds of mutual interest in order to move together forward toward a better understanding of our reciprocal interests in building a forward-moving partnership for cooperation together.
This might be the best sentence ever written on this blog.
Dude, Greenwald said, "[...]about a country where we've propped up numerous oppressive regimes and continue to slaughter civilians via sky robots." Suspect this'll go over like a lead balloon 'round here, but cut the fucker some slack, 's all I'm sayin'.
hucka fucka... over at Jon Schwarz's place I got called a fantasist and tin-foil-hatter for saying Al Qaeda was an American fabrication.
Gotta love those dutiful pwogs at ATR.
Good read.l..Both here and Greenwald's bitch-slap of the Old Broad, err... Grey Lady!
Y'know... I been thinking about the explosion of insanity here in recent times, and while we don't hesitate to rip a strip off the wingnut columnists who feed the frenzy due their lazy reporting or evil designs, for some reason we never, ever hold the owners and CEOs of FOX, CNN, or the NYTimes responsible for the crazed indifference to facts that their employee/journos have taken.
C'mon! Ailes, Murdoch, Sulzeberger and the rest surely signaled their approval of such tactics to the news staff. And O'Reilly et al can't change the FOX, etc. format, but Ailes/Murdoch certainly can. So why target their paid clowns with daggers of retributive justice?
No, no. It's them we should be dragging through the mud with the specific intent to destroy their prestige and place in history... if not at least their willingness to deceive us peasants "for our own good!", they no doubt tell themselves of course. So far they've been shielded by our own sense that their class makes them remote and untouchable to our lower-class machinations and whining. Bullsh*t! Destroy them before they do us.
So no excuses now. Sic 'em!
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