{"id":4045,"date":"2007-11-11T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T00:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/the-freedom-agenda-strikes-again\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T00:18:34","slug":"the-freedom-agenda-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/the-freedom-agenda-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom Agenda Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, Saakashvili&#8217;s &#8220;Rose Revolution&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=11878\">never was a democratic movement<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That much is obvious.\u00c2\u00a0 So it would be deeply mistaken to describe the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSL11298607\">continued\u00c2\u00a0U.S. backing of Saakashvili<\/a> as a contradiction or betrayal\u00c2\u00a0of the &#8220;freedom agenda&#8221;&#8211;the &#8220;freedom agenda&#8221; <em>has always been <\/em>aimed at<em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>the empowerment of local oligarchic stooges who will align their governments with ours, and Saakashvili has certainly fit the bill.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the whole point of the &#8220;agenda,&#8221; and how these\u00c2\u00a0lackeys rule at home\u00c2\u00a0has never been Washington&#8217;s concern.\u00c2\u00a0 The internal affairs of other states\u00c2\u00a0concern Washington in\u00c2\u00a0inverse proportion to those states&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0alignment with the United States.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this way, we can understand why Washington continues foolishly to back Musharraf and will persist in its hostility towards Venezuela&#8217;s Chavez, despite the marked similarities in their styles of government and the clear <em>destabilising<\/em> effects all three rulers are having on their respective countries.\u00c2\u00a0 Chavez doesn&#8217;t play ball, Musharraf occasionally does what Washington (again often\u00c2\u00a0foolishly) calls on him to do, and Saakashvili is a reliable lackey, and they are treated accordingly.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larison.org\">Eunomia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, Saakashvili&#8217;s &#8220;Rose Revolution&#8221; never was a democratic movement.\u00c2\u00a0 That much is obvious.\u00c2\u00a0 So it would be deeply mistaken to describe the continued\u00c2\u00a0U.S. backing of Saakashvili as a contradiction or betrayal\u00c2\u00a0of the &#8220;freedom agenda&#8221;&#8211;the &#8220;freedom agenda&#8221; has always been aimed at\u00c2\u00a0the empowerment of local oligarchic stooges who will align their governments with ours, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}