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| Nagy just hates that empire... |
| 2002-12-18 |
| Thomas Nagy, a professor of Business and Public Management at George Washington University, told IslamOnline that it is the âresponsibility of U.S. citizens primarily to prevent the escalation of the war against Iraq.â Yeah. If you can't trust Thomas Nagy, who can you trust? (Who's he?) Speaking in a live dialogue with IslamOnlineâs visitors, Nagy said that there is a growth in the opposition to the escalation of war throughout the U.S. âIt is critical to retain a margin of hope that we can, all working together in active nonviolent ways, prevent the atrocity of an escalation,â said Nagy adding that it is critical to retain optimism that protests and other efforts to help restore safe water in Iraq, will âend the move towards escalating the on-going war.â "So get out there and holler and make faces!" He gave some examples of the success of the protests beyond campus cities. He said that the state of Montana has an active, effective peace movement (www.montanapeaceseekers.org). Yeah. They're tearin' 'em up. (Never heard of 'em, actually...) Another indicator, Nagy said, is that so many best sellers in the U.S. oppose the Bush foreign policy. âThese books range from Mooreâs Stupid White Men to Tariq Aliâs book, and the books of Gore Vidal and Chomsky and Barbara Kingsolver,â he said. Oh, yeah! That'll do it. People take Mikey and Gore and Gnome and Whatsername very seriously... However, Nagy said that there is a high likelihood that the U.S. will escalate, which ethically requires us to devote more effort to undertake nonviolent protest and positive programs. Nagy said that the U.S., like previous empires, is âshowing credibilityâ. Whuzzat? âThat is, committing spectacularly cruel acts, to intimidate other countries. The downside for the U.S. government is that it losses respect and by resorting to terror, is increasing the prospect of more terror,â he said. Yeah. Y'remember when they dropped that load of groceries on that woman in Afghanistan and killed her? That was all premeditated... He said that he believes that the U.S. is operating as an âempireâ, but a very sophisticated empire that makes use of marketing tools such as focus groups to âdisguise what is illegal in its foreign policy... As an empire, it feels compelled, for financial gain, to resort periodically to great cruelty to intimidate the world as well as to keep its own citizens from dwelling on broken promises such as universal health care and the biggest theft in history â the Enron and similar scandals.â I didn't promise anybody universal health care. Did you? Nagy said that it would be helpful if the E.U. explain to âtheir U.S. friendsâ why the world opposes the U.S. foreign policies. âI hope Europe sends more people into Iraq (parliamentarians, entertainers, pacifists, professors) whose presence would help deter escalation. I salute those who have gone such as George Galloway, Member of the British parliament,â he said. Sammy needs the human shields... Responding to a question on how the U.S. will take over the country, and whether it was really going to oust Saddam, Nagy said: âI fear that, consistent with the U.S. Air Force Doctrine, âStrategic Attackâ 2-1.2 dated 20 May 1998, the U.S. will destroy the infrastructure of Iraq yet again as it did in 1991. I hope Iâm wrong because that would cause very large civilian casualties as it did in 1991.â Tell 'em about the bomb shelter we toasted. That was a good 'un! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 IslamOnline really gets the A list for interviews, huh? This boob, Ben Bella... really impressing the shit outta me. Who's next, Mullah Omar's beard fumigator? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2002-12-18 17:17:19 |
| #5 Montana? Isn't that where they're setting up the camps to hold all the peacniks after der tag? |
| Posted by: mojo 2002-12-18 14:55:52 |
| #4 No reason we cant win the war on terror AND move in the direction of universal health care. Thats what i expect to hear from Sen. Lieberman and Sen. Edwards in the next gew months. A good start would be a serious commitment to improving our public health network, which would be useful against bioterror, and also have peacetime benefits. Kinda like the Interstate highway system. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2002-12-18 14:39:07 |
| #3 Ever wonder if some Islamic believers want any Arab nation to get nukes, they don't care who it is or how many Arabs that fella has killed as long as he gets a nuke and is willing to use it. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-18 12:18:14 |
| #2 What a crackpot. Google found this. Dr. Nagy argues that the purposeful destruction of Iraq's water treatment facilities amounted to "a plan for achieving extermination without the need of constructing extermination camps." Time for a chill pill, Dr. Tom. |
| Posted by: John B. 2002-12-18 11:34:19 |
| #1 The evil American empire, dropping focus groups on Iraq. Truly showing great cruelty. I imagine the Iraqis really suffered, showing Sean Penn around. They were jumping in front of buses. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-12-18 11:34:13 |