VENGENCE HAS ARRIVED!!!---Interview with Chalmers Johnson

[kpete]

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA
Interview with Chalmers Johnson


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TD: So put our problems in a nutshell.

CJ: From George Bush's point of view, his administration has achieved everything ideologically that he wanted to achieve. Militarism has been advanced powerfully. In the minds of a great many people, the military is now the only American institution that appears to work. He's enriched the ruling classes. He's destroyed the separation of powers as thoroughly as was possible. These are the problems that face us right now. The only way you could begin to rebuild the separation of powers would be to reinvigorate the Congress and I don't know what could shock the American public into doing that. They're the only ones who could do it. The courts can't. The president obviously won't.

The only thing I can think of that might do it would be bankruptcy. Like what happened to Argentina in 2001. The richest country in Latin America became one of the poorest. It collapsed. It lost the ability to borrow money and lost control of its affairs, but a great many Argentines did think about what corrupt presidents had listened to what corrupt advice and done what stupid things during the 1990s. And right now, the country is on its way back.

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I'm planning on calling the third volume of what I now think of as "The Blowback Trilogy," Nemesis. Nemesis was the Greek goddess of vengeance. She also went after people who became too arrogant, who were so taken with themselves that they lost all prudence. She was always portrayed as a fierce figure with a scale in one hand - think, Judgment Day - and a whip in the other ...

TD: And you believe she's coming after us?

CJ: Oh, I believe she's arrived. I think she's sitting around waiting for her moment, the one we're coming up on right now.


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[rzemanfl]

1. Read all of this today. This guy is brilliant, but not optimistic. n/t

[jwirr]

2. I am looking forward to reading his third book. He was the one who

showed me what was going on and where it would lead us. Blowback was WTC and the second book on overstretch is where we are now. I agree, either we the people will wake up and reap vengeance or some of our lenders will.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

3. Thanks.

I just finished his books "Blowback" and "Sorrows of Empire" this month.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. One of the best. post 9-11 books: Sorrow of Empire.

You might not agree with everything he has to say but he documents the heck out of all of it and he lays it all out. The opposite of a waste of time is reading anything he writes.