Doug Bandow

Scott Horton, August 24, 2007

Doug Bandow, policy analyst and author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire, discusses the dangerous vision of Rudy “I was there that day” Giuliani as described in his recent Foreign Affairs article.

MP3 here. (20:51)

Doug Bandow is a Washington-based political writer and policy analyst and a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign.

He has been widely published in leading newspapers and periodicals and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows. He has written and edited several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire (Xulon Press), The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea (Palgrave/Macmillan, coauthor), Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato), Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World (Cato, coeditor), and Military Manpower and Human Resources (National Defense University). His latest book is Foreign Follies (Xulon Press).



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11 Responses to “Doug Bandow”

  1. Bill Federkiel
    August 26th, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    Guiliani is a total nutbag…His attack on Congressman Ron Paul was disengenuous, jingoistic and opportunistic..He was totally playing to the red-state fascists…Guiliani has never supported a real investigation into 9-11…
    1. The order passed in May that NORAD shootdowns couldn’t be ordered by the local NORAD commander..
    2. The Cold War war game exercise that had NORAD planes flying towards the Arctic Circle at the same time..
    3. The apts in NY where a ton of Thermite ( high-tech explosives ) was found..See the pictures where the steel columns were cut in a 45 degree angle..
    Etc

  2. Bill Federkiel
    August 26th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    And who can forget the moving company Mossad agents on the roof in East New York videotaping the first planes impact and celebrating? A little more heads-up and a little less skull-duggery may have helped us out..
    2. The shutting-dpwn of FBI investigations before 9-11..See Agent Colleen Rowley..
    3. The dumping of American Airline and United Airlines stock before 9-11….

  3. Marty
    August 27th, 2007 at 10:10 am

    From another board talking about Bush’s “Vietnamization” of Iraq:

    “In the Republic of Vietnam, created by the United States after the partition of French Indochina, such institutions did not exist. Despite an enormous U.S. investment in nation-building, they never did. In the end, South Vietnam proved to be a fiction.”

    This is one of the hardest things for veterans to admit — and of course the Republicowards still deny — is that there never was a ‘South Vietnam’ outside of the US’s maintenance of its own self-generated fraud. That means that the Vietnam war was not a war primarily in Vietnam, but a war against the Vietnamese, full stop.

    “Radical Islamists like Osama bin Laden do subscribe to a hateful ideology. But to imagine that Bin Laden and others of his ilk have the capability to control the Middle East, restoring the so-called Caliphate, is absurd, as silly as the vaunted domino theory of the 1950s and 1960s.”

    The whole ‘Islam is taking over’ business is much MORE delusional than the domino theory.

  4. Marycatherine Barton
    August 27th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    I learned so much from these four comments. I hope that truthtelling can set us free.

  5. Chris S
    August 28th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    People still try and scare others with the “Caliphate” idea, Mitt Romney believes it and used it briefly for some fearmongering during the debates. They are the same people who don’t question our BFF relationship with Saudis and don’t read past the “only focus on Iran” brainwashing campaign by the MSM to see the cute little proxy war going on in Iraq between Iranian Shiites and Saudi Sunnis.

    It kind of contradicts the dire, doom and gloom consequences I hear regarding mass casualties and the possibilities of genocide should the US pull out of Iraq. From one side of their mouth they tell us that if we leave it will be chaos and disaster, a power vacuum, civil war, genocide, etc. Then out of the other side of their mouth they tell us that these people will suddenly unite under one banner once we are gone. So which is it? Do we leave and bring chaos or do we leave and bring them together? I guess it depends on another argument….

    I tell them that I heard about a conspiracy among the Mormons, Catholics, and Branch Dividians. They are getting together to take back the holy land and form a theocratic state so that they can rule over us all with an iron fist, The Crusades v1.8.

  6. Chris S
    August 28th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    ugh, my bold closer didn’t register…

    Robert D. Steele (wiki) “is a former Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer for twenty years and was the second-ranking civilian (GS-14) in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence from 1988-1992. Steele is a former clandestine services case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency”, currently ranked as the #43 reviewer on amazon, and #1 reviewer of non-fiction, sums up the issues surrounding 9/11 very well, without sounding like a “truther”. No pods, no Freemasons, no reptilians or zionist bankser. None of that, he focuses largely on Vice, Scoop and Dump, and Silverstein. He has reviewed almost 1000 nonfiction books on amazon (there are some dvds thrown in). He seems to be big into the Global Warming/Conservation thing, but what he says regarding 9/11 makes more sense and is clearer than anything I’ve read from other “sources”. He has created lots of lists, even one related to impeaching Cheney. He also seems to favor Article V.

    From his review of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA (the first review), he pretty much sums up the shady aspects of 9/11 that haven’t been investigated properly. His conclusions:

    1) 9-11 was planned and executed by Bin Laden with direct assistance from elements of the Pakistani government.

    2) No fewer than 9, some say 11, governments warned the US at the highest levels. I believe that Dick Cheney saw this as a gift of heaven, and organized the 9-11 exercises so as to have complete operational control of the U.S. government, and he “let it happen.”

    3) I believe that Larry Silverstein, new owner of the World Trade Center, NOT the U.S. Government, was briefed on this by the Mossad, and saw an opportunity to solve his asbestos problem at taxpayer expense. I believe that Larry Silverstein, in partnership with the security firm managed by a Bush family member, installed the controlled demolitions and “pulled” all three buildings, murdering the people in them, in order to clear the area for rebuilding and get the $7 billion in insurance money. I believe that he paid Rudy Gulliani as much as a billion to “scoop and dump” the crime scene into oblivion, and I believe that the insurance company executives are in cahoots with Silversten and got major kick-backs, because there is no way a serious insurance company investigation could have ignored the evidence of thermite being briefed to the Senate this very week.

    4) Finally, I do think there is evidence of CIA and FBI blundering about and aiding “assets” who participated in the first World Trade Center car bombing, but it is very important to distinguish between bureaucratic incompetence; Dick Cheney’s deliberate decision to let it happen; and Larry Silverstein’s alleged dmurder of all those people including firefighters.

    Steele’s Other Reviews – He is a not a fan of the Vice. He has also had some kind words regarding Ron Paul after hearing about him, especially after the debate in which the GOP member that organized the event had previous business relations with Scoop and Dump and packed the house full of his cheerleaders.

    In fact, here is a link to Steele’s recent review of Foreign Follies.

  7. Bill Federkiel
    August 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    Good work by Chris S. He was referring to the three war games going on simultaneously that day…
    1. The Cold War exercise that had NORAD fighters flying to the Arctic Circle..
    2. The simulated high-jackings of 11 planes that day and
    3. The chem-bio war games going on in Manhattan, the headquarters for which became the command center during 9-11..
    The hour is late and we need to wake-up..These people will go to great lengths: It’s been revealed that Army Ranger GWOT poster boy Pat Tillman was killed by a 3 round burst of automatic fire from less than 10 yards away…Tillman had spoken against the unnecessary, unprovoked, unjust and “illegal ” invasion of Iraq when he was in that country and was scheduled to come home soon..The first doctor contradicted the first story put out ( killed by enemy fire )..
    These people are dangerous but St. Stephen also must have known the dangers of telling the truth before he was stoned to death and he did it anyway…His blood may have bought the conversion of Saul who became St. Paul…So be brave fellow Americans and stand up for the truth…

  8. @@@
    August 29th, 2007 at 12:57 am

    WHY is a whore- Bandow- who took money to write slanted articles for Jack Abramoff headlining on a so-called anti-war site? funny how justin raimondo defended this guy- doug bandow- for doing it. if Bandow had been a non-CATO libertarian sympathizer, he’d have rightly trashed him. this site needs to come clean on who and what they really are: an MSM aggregator/rightwing think tank hiding behind an ‘antiwar’ marquis is still corp a whore!

  9. Bill Federkiel
    August 29th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    This is the problem in this country..balkanization, and it was probably built-in fm the beginning..We’re broken into so many factions; not just ethnicity but religious, ideological, etc..And now in this age we don’t even watch the same news anymore..The Republican-Right watches Fox Noise..everyone else watches whatever…Can you imagine how different the Right would have sounded the last 7 yrs had Bill Clinton been in the White House? Just remember how they sounded during the Vince Foster scandal or discussing what happened at the Mena Airport..Or Clinton’s unjust bombing of Serbia..Yes, these people have all the sophistication of Ralph and Norton on their way to the Raccoon Lodge……

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