6/28/2023 0 Comments Chalmers johnson nemesis![]() ![]() Take former CIA head William Casey, for instance, who “saw political Islam and the Catholic Church as natural allies in covert actions against Soviet imperialism.” It was Casey, in Johnson’s assessment, who was responsible for the United States’ strange-bedfellows alliance with the Islamic fundamentalists who morphed into the Taliban and al-Qaeda. (Hence the “blowback” of which Johnson has written at length elsewhere.) Secretively seeking to further America’s unacknowledged imperial aims, government officials authorize actions that do not befit a republic supposedly ruled by checks and balances. ![]() Bush and Dick Cheney have led the country into a perilous cul-de-sac, but they did not do it alone and removing them from office will not necessarily solve the problem.” The problem, writ large, is the post–World War II transformation of America into a super-state served by client governments around the world whose citizens, for various reasons, may not be happy about the association. But political scientist and liberal commentator Johnson ( Blowback, 2000, etc.) isn’t biting. A paean-perhaps premature, perhaps overdue-for a republic-turned-empire.įor those of a blue-state bent, the midterm election of 2006 may seem to have changed things for the better. ![]()
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