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The risks of terror : Comments
By Bill Calcutt, published 18/6/2015Remarkably, terrorism co-opts credulous authorities who need to constantly dramatize the magnitude and imminence of the threat in order to justify exceptional government actions to protect the community.
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CC: Do you think it is correct to speak of the existence, at the political level, of a sort of “Power Point generation”? That is, a set of people in charge whose mental schemes are extremely simplified, linear and in cascade, devoid of a marked ability to lateral thinking, over that of honesty.
Dr Roberts: I can’t answer for every country. In the US the present power consists of the Neoconservatives. Their name is misleading. They are not conservatives. (think the opposite to everything that is espoused today). Their fathers came out of the Trotsky left. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Neocons concluded that History had chosen the capitalists, not the workers, and that America was the “exceptional and indispensable” country whose right was to exercise hegemony over the world. This is akin to Trosky’s theory of world revolution, but in behalf of American capital, not the workers. The pursuit of this policy has defined US foreign policy since the Clinton regime. The lives of millions of people have paid for the supremacy of American control.
CC: Can we therefore say that the current US foreign policy is the product of this generation “in limited thinking”? If so, in your opinion how much are the military leaders influenced?
Dr Roberts: I do not think that the US is any longer capable of producing leaders. Govt is simply something to be used by agendas. Military leaders benefit from mobilizations and war, as promotions are more rapid and officers retire at higher pensions. Once one reaches the rank of major or lieutenant general, private and Pentagon consulting opportunities abound as do military / security corporate directorships in the “defence” industry. The financial rewards make the generals complicit in the propaganda of everpresent “threats”, whether “terrorist”, Muslim, Russian or Chinese.
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