Eugene Jarecki by Rich Monetti-The American Way
A colleague interviewed Eugene Jarecki. Jarecki did "Capturing the
Friedman's" and "Why we Fight "(on the military industrial complex). He's
written a book, expanding on Why we Fight, called The American Way of War.
I probably wouldn't be a Jarecki supporter as he swings far right it seems.I think Bill Clinton has down a lot of good in this world- and when he made mistakes or not handled thigns as well as he might- such as Bosnia he has admitted it.I find Jarecki's levelling at Clinton unfair but then..Jarecki is coming in into it from his own very far right republican angle.
I thought I would publish the article-a colleague wrote it-and/as there is always room for differing viewpoints in the world.All a part of freedom of speech.Please read below or click on the link..
Eugene Jarecki and the American Way of War
The Military Industrial Complex and How to Defeat It
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the case of Iraq, Republicans simply stood with their party but many
wondered where the dissenting Democrats were. "They had to follow the
executive branch in regard to the WMD's," he says, because all those
jobs (and campaign finances) tied to the F-22 would disappear when the
Department of Defense decides to locate those contracts to another
state. Of course, that is the Department of Defense in the executive branch and it works the same way regardless of the party in power. This speaks directly to the mandate Mr. Jarecki is calling for. Despite all the burdens of our nonstop, misnamed 9-5 lives, he says, "You need to be a Madison or this will all go to Hell."
Making matters worse is that media outlets not following the party line suffer a similar fate. Reporters asking the wrong questions will find themselves left out of the loop and lose the scoops that they come to count on from The White House.
It doesn't take a so called war to keep everyone in line either. Without much discussion, "Bill Clinton starved a half a million Iraqis and fought a war under the radar in Operation Desert Fox," he says.
In contrast, he prefers George Bush's brash, in your face approach to the nice guy double take of Bill Clinton. "He's a logo for how not to run a country," he says, and in turn, progressive causes gained ground all across the country and the world.
Nonetheless, with this broken machine, an unbridled effort to secure ourselves after September 11th would probably have arisen in either party. Eisenhower spoke to it long before The Patriot Act ever stood in for actual patriotism. "There's no such thing as perfect security but you may destroy yourself to get there," Mr. Jarecki conveyed the sentiment as student of the 34th president.
He might also go along with hero worship but even from where he stands and studies, Mr, Jarecki cautions against our tendency towards the American style of cult of personality adulation. Lincoln, Reagan, King and even Elvis stand out for us but change did not come solely from them. Obviously backed by masses, he says, within those groups there were smaller, dedicated groups that pushed the future over the top. That leaves us to look up and fill out the change of address forms.
