[…] administration. (2) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. ‘Because of the Ministry of Defence’s fanatical determination to keep close to the Pentagon. They will never do anything that puts that relationship out of line. The truth is that it is the pivot of all military careers and a […]
[…] ‘He was very concerned about getting along with the administration…… and “playing along” really meant to sustain the conceptions of the policy makers – particularly at the Pentagon and the Vice-President’s office – that Saddam Hussein was a real and imminent danger. ‘To do that, you had to accept some of these alarming reports […]
[…] a natural order – or at least, should be made so. Hence, as we have also discussed, the efforts of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney at the Pentagon to establish the pre-emptive principle as a part of the US strategic furniture. Despite mounting near-unilateral military efforts in Iraq and the Balkans, the doctrinal case […]
[…] was helping the USA in its war with the Soviets in Afghanistan, and (b) US arms corporations were making money selling weapons systems and planes to the Pentagon which were being passed on to the Pakistan military as part of the price of co-operation in ‘the war on terror’. In short: Pakistan acquired the […]
[…] Sir Michael is among a number of senior British commanders who are said to question Britain’s backing for a US invasion of Iraq, and are sceptical of Pentagon claims about Saddam Hussein’s links with the al-Qa’ida terror organisation and his stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.’ (1) Even more off-message On 25 January 2004 […]
[…] day after the article was printed Pravda published a long article on the Generals’ revolt in which it said that the mutiny was encouraged by NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA. (18) The rumours on April 22nd were launched cautiously by “a minor official at the Elysee Palace itself”, according to Crosby Noyes in […]
[…] at least three others missed. I find it difficult to believe that any of the powerful elements in the US state apparatus – the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, for example – would have felt it necessary to ambush Kennedy if they just wanted to get rid of him, or change some of his policies. […]
[…] post 9/11 world, however, nobody cares and the book is just one more attack on the CIA, which has all but been supplanted in Washington by the Pentagon, which is not accountable to Congress for covert operations, and the rise of the private sector intelligence firms. Notes Author of Portrait of a Cold Warrior […]
[…] In his final paragraphs Van Wynsberghe adds Lobster and Alex Cox to his line-up of dupes and villains. Lobster ‘began running reports on psychic cliques in the Pentagon’. I did? Not quite. And poor old Cox ‘maintained that there was a fascist conspiracy in the U.S. security establishment to encourage belief in UFO’s’. He […]
[…] and are now as high as anywhere outside of Manhattan? Well, the Mob happened, in the persons of Bugsy Siegal and Meyer Lansky – as did the Pentagon, courtesy of the US atomic testing programme. Both these influxes of outside talent, people with ‘juice’ to use the Vegas parlance, were presaged by three events […]
