25-10-2010, 03:22 AM
Speaking of renown bastard Herr Kissinger, this session with Len Colodny (a co-author of "Silent Coup") and Tom Shachtman, authors of "The Forty Years War," is excellent.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/291579-1
Transcript also at that URL.
It has background on:
"Fritz Kraemer, an obscure Pentagon analyst, whose championing of a militarized, moralistic foreign policy allegedly inspired two generations of neoconservatives. [Cheap Labor Conservatives, MB] The book's first half follows the departure of Richard Nixon and erstwhile Kraemer-ite Henry Kissinger from conservative orthodoxy in seeking a rapprochement with Communist powers. In a voluminous rehash of Watergate, the authors insinuate that White House chief of staff and Kraemer protégé Alexander Haig, abetted by reporter Bob Woodward (a sinister mouthpiece), undermined the Nixon presidency for this apostasy. The second half treats ensuing decades as a seesaw struggle in which neocon [CLC, MB] policy makers' adventurism, from the Iran-Contra affair to the Iraq War, periodically self-destructs and generates a realist backlash. The authors' sharp narrative of factional infighting exhausts itself in flogging the Haig-Woodward conspiracy theory."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_...%20Colodny
This book looks like a must have.
Has anyone here read it?
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/291579-1
Transcript also at that URL.
It has background on:
"Fritz Kraemer, an obscure Pentagon analyst, whose championing of a militarized, moralistic foreign policy allegedly inspired two generations of neoconservatives. [Cheap Labor Conservatives, MB] The book's first half follows the departure of Richard Nixon and erstwhile Kraemer-ite Henry Kissinger from conservative orthodoxy in seeking a rapprochement with Communist powers. In a voluminous rehash of Watergate, the authors insinuate that White House chief of staff and Kraemer protégé Alexander Haig, abetted by reporter Bob Woodward (a sinister mouthpiece), undermined the Nixon presidency for this apostasy. The second half treats ensuing decades as a seesaw struggle in which neocon [CLC, MB] policy makers' adventurism, from the Iran-Contra affair to the Iraq War, periodically self-destructs and generates a realist backlash. The authors' sharp narrative of factional infighting exhausts itself in flogging the Haig-Woodward conspiracy theory."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_...%20Colodny
This book looks like a must have.
Has anyone here read it?