The Painful Truth
As a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, Congressman Ron Paul shocked the media by pointing out that terrorists were not merely freedom hating madmen, but had actual motivation for their crime on 9/11.
Ron Paul said: "I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I mean, what would we think if other foreign countries were doing that to us?"
Chalmers Johnson wrote a prophetic book entitled “Blowback” in which he links the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to disasters at home. In “The Sorrows of Empire”, Johnson explores how the growth of militarism and the garrisoning of our troops around the world has jeopardized our safety at home. The final volume of what has become known as the “Blowback Trilogy” is “Nemesis: The Last Days of The American Republic.”
You don't have to be Muslim to understand the very human experience that if you’re bullied, coerced and your native land is occupied the people affected are going to get angry.
Unfortunately, most American’s don’t have a clue what has been happening for the last two decades. We tend to think of our country as peaceful, happy, hard working, and law abiding, and when you tell people that America is actually something completely different, they are shocked. In fact, during the 1990s, our government attempted to starve the population of Iraq, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
The Islamic extremists we are now fighting are the very group that we supported and subsidized throughout the 1980s in the name of fighting Communism in Afghanistan.
Congressman Paul and others have been trying for many years to impress upon “we the people”, that our government is the enemy of American values. Our government is not peaceful, it is not friendly, it is not motivated by the Christian faith but rather power and imperial lust.
Those that are furious about terrorism and extremism abroad, need to take a good hard look in the mirror, because Congressman Ron Paul and author Chalmers Johnson have told the truth.
Ron Paul said: "I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I mean, what would we think if other foreign countries were doing that to us?"
Chalmers Johnson wrote a prophetic book entitled “Blowback” in which he links the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to disasters at home. In “The Sorrows of Empire”, Johnson explores how the growth of militarism and the garrisoning of our troops around the world has jeopardized our safety at home. The final volume of what has become known as the “Blowback Trilogy” is “Nemesis: The Last Days of The American Republic.”
You don't have to be Muslim to understand the very human experience that if you’re bullied, coerced and your native land is occupied the people affected are going to get angry.
Unfortunately, most American’s don’t have a clue what has been happening for the last two decades. We tend to think of our country as peaceful, happy, hard working, and law abiding, and when you tell people that America is actually something completely different, they are shocked. In fact, during the 1990s, our government attempted to starve the population of Iraq, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
The Islamic extremists we are now fighting are the very group that we supported and subsidized throughout the 1980s in the name of fighting Communism in Afghanistan.
Congressman Paul and others have been trying for many years to impress upon “we the people”, that our government is the enemy of American values. Our government is not peaceful, it is not friendly, it is not motivated by the Christian faith but rather power and imperial lust.
Those that are furious about terrorism and extremism abroad, need to take a good hard look in the mirror, because Congressman Ron Paul and author Chalmers Johnson have told the truth.
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