"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> I can't remember the particulars (or the source) but I recall Nixon
> being quoted as declaring this an actual policy: Making other states
> fearful of what the U.S. might do.
>
> Carrol
>
> Mark Bennett wrote:
> >
> > I don't know where Finkelstein may have found the particulars relating to
> > his statement, but Chomsky has been employing this trope for decades, t
> > claiming that the U.S. has cultivated an unpredictable, "madman" image to
> > unnerve its enemies. I don't have a specific source at hand, but I'm
> sure
> > that it can be found in virtually any of Noam's many volumes.
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