Conversations With History: American Foreign Policy

[groundzerobuild]

IN 10 YEARS TIME AMERICA WILL BE PUSHED TO 3RD WORLD STATUS

[WINNNY22]

arrogant yankees

[Hoxification]

standard dull intellectuals praising/justifying their empire.

[tuttysean]

i dont believe there is an issue with an inability to overthor, if you do your research, pablo, you will see there is a considerable effort to unite the world under one governing body

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[bapyou]

'Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions since World War II'

William Blum, Common Courage Press 2004

[itrainsinoctober]

Do you know who is the most influential Country to the US government? Have you seen these PROTEST pictures from America? Google this: who is congress listening to - it will be the first article on Google. If youre interested in this topic, there is a really well done documentary on Google Video: The Israel lobby - The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy.

[itrainsinoctober]

To learn something about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, check out: Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Dr. Norman Finkelstein. This book is actual scholarship, not rhetoric. AND I HOPE FOR THE DAY WHEN ISRAEL IS TRIED FOR ITS WAR CRIMES.

[GaiusIuliusTaberna]

Pat Buchannan and the old xenophobic right are a plague on the republican party, one so great I switched to Whig. The trouble is, they are technically real conservatives, but that isn't a good thing.

The Bush 41 internationalists are the way to go. They can win, because their ideas are sane.

[toprob20]

Hmmm... this program has had some pretty interesting guests. Too bad it isnt consistent in this!

[starmanskye]

God, these stuffed-shirt 'writers' are either complete dolts, stooges or propaganda shills. Possibly all three. The early comment re: American security state challenges to insure global order in the event of states 'falling apart', using the example of Yugoslavia's civil collapse -- These 'experts' don't EVEN address the crucial issue that Yugoslavia was deliberately fractured through economic sabotage and covert-ops violence as per Divide-and-Rule tactics etc. Shameless intellectual fraud.

[MattyJames25]

Yes, the Slovenes, the Croats, the Bosnians, the Kosovars had no right to leave Serbian domination, and of course they wouldn't want this in the first place: it could only be a western conspiratorial plot, right?

[ISnipe4UMD]

@starmanskye Thats my friends daddy!

[TheMovieNeverEnds]

In 1985 while under oath during the Ernst Zundel trial in Toronto the world's foremost so-called "Holocaust" expert Raul Hilberg was forced to admit that he had never visited a single one of the German camps before writing his 1961 book, "Destruction of the European Jewry". And Hilberg only ever visited one camp (Treblinka) for a one day ceremony between 1961 and 1985. And this was the main jew that all the other jews always named as the person who knew the entire true story. Unbelievable.

[geezzerboy]

Didn't Larry Hagman's character on Dallas, JR Ewing, end the Cold War? The Soviet leadership aired Dallas on Russian TV to show Russians how evil American Capitalism was. It had the opposite effect, every Russian wanted to be as rich as the Ewings.

[bapyou]

" ... every Russian wanted to be as rich as the Ewings."

Yeah, so does every American. This means what? What it means is Russians -- just like Americans -- can be moronically materialistic if the material toys are dangled in their faces every day via television. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote about the spiritual vacuum in the United States and its vacuous materialism.

[happosai21]

goldgeier.. lol nice jewish name xD if you know german

[parser14]

golden vulture...LMAO

[samkaz123]

I watched this with some interest,who are these people,don't they realy know the problem which face all of us,they have researched and writen a book and still dont know ,let me tell you in one sentense.

IT IS PLASTINE YOU STUPID.

resolve the injustes there and 90% of worldwide problem will be finished.

[LittleEstefi]

In the contemporary world, organized American Jewish lobbying groups and deeply committed Jews in the Bush administration and the media are behind the pro-Israel U.S. foreign policy that is leading to war against virtually the entire Arab world.

(p.S. his guest speakers have Jewish last names.)

[utupeitupe]

12 senators/32 representatives/chief of staff/middle east envoy/are also jewish,add to that the fact that alot of israel and the usa interests coinside and what do you get?

[samkaz123]

You are right.

[PabloArgentum]

I got bored over time watching this video. Its obvious that Americans want to rule the world and have no competition, which is absolutely disgusting. And its also nasty how many conflicts and tensions are created in purpose and there is the goverment and mass media lying to us. If the world hates the United States it is for a reason, and most of the American people have no clue about what it goverment does in foreign countries.

You may put -1 -2 -3 ... -80 but this is the truth.

[cireful]

Apparently, there is this problem of explaining the foreign policy by the government. Never mind US involvement with dictatorships worldwide in the last century, military interventions everywhere and anywhere, military support to Israel, Indonesia, Iraq and a ton of other countries involved in oppression and violent conflict, economic subversion of neighbors in Latin America, never mind that Clinton-time project in Iraq basically laying the ground for future military intervention with.

[cireful]

Then theres the comment about the unforeseeable economic crisis, something about it being completely out of the blue, anticipated by no one. Never mind the very foundation of the Glass-Steagle Act repealed in 1999 and the numerous professional voices of protest and CONCRETE FORESIGHT of the crisis that the merger of financial and commercial institutions would cause, the very reason Glass-Steagle Act was introduced back in 1933.

[cireful]

Never mind all the analysis of the clear physical evidence of financial power subverting checks and balances and a basically using local and global institutions and economies as their private reserve. Never mind the merger of financial and military industrial complex, as anticipated by Eisenhower.

[cireful]

The history did not, as reported here, start in 1989, it was going on since the establishment of the USA as an empire-to-state by the removal of indigenous population. Somehow despite all this, there is this turmoil and differences they talk about and how its so difficult to get these things formulated, so that the American people understand them correctly. The problem is quite different the Americans understand more and more, and that is not supposed to happen.

[Imboredandfree]

Keep postin !

Good to see that there's something out there to counter all the crappy nappy dotee;)

[rizzoni]

i really like these videos.

but yes, the introduction gives me adult entertainment vibes.

[8data]

so, i enjoy it toorotoootoo too

[hluboka1]

While the insights from this particular interview aren't especially earthshaking, this is a kind of discussion that is extremely valuable to have. This program is a useful addition especially to the popular discussion of these issues.

Don't give it short shrift unless you discuss its content.

[chris3443]

good lord, this is 2008, change the introduction to something watchable!

[happosai21]

ah come on. who takes this serious? a thinktank guy and a CFRcrook? lol