Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Ali Reza Asgari, a mole for Mossad and Western intelligence agencies,
"served in the Iranian government until early 2005 under
then-President Mohammad Khatami." Reformists ought to read less
Habermas and perhaps more Clausewitz. -- Yoshie
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1497034.ece>
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Yes, and Marxist really need to read less Marx and more Abbie Hoffman
(One of Marcuse's students at Brandeis, and perhaps the only activist
who ever understood the full social implications and potential of what
cde. Marcuse was trying to say).
I wish you luck changing everyone's reading habits.
Something I wrote on another list follows, about the "Penetration" of
Iran, as Juan Cole's State department friend cutely called the early '60
subversion of the baathist party in Iraq. (Gotta love the sexual
overtones to the nomenclature... if we had gained control of Iran due to
So Damn Insane's war it would be 'double penetration')
[...]
It's really unlikely that the US will do much more than SOF/SOG
insurgence and liason with 'friendlies' inside Iran over the next so
many years. You know, subvert and destabilize.
The next nutcase christian (or jewish) administration that gets elected
will attack Iran. GWB won't.
By then. all that liason work will have garnered us an Iranian Chalabi,
heck why not a whole *herd* of chalabis, like the ones who were supposed
to be waiting to take over the Iraqi government.
[,,,]
Timesonline just ID'd a member of that herd... Asgari is not the only one.
There is *never* just one and they are *not* reformers of their nation.
The social disease ravishing the earth and sucking it dry for it's
resources called, interchangably, transnational capitalism or global
imperialism has loooong term plans not to be tampered with the likes of
pesky little multinational conferences over the 'future' of Iraq and
it's security, which is really the begining of the breakup and
re-distribution of Iraq's territory.
That is the sort of 'reformation' which I'm speaking of, 'territorial
reformation'.
Look how long it's taken to decimate the Native Americans and their
microscopic land-holdings, and they're STILL working on taking more.
More. More.
More.
Ask any indigenous person on the continent currently called America if
the invaders, that's the Europeans, and their descendants, have EVER
fully honored ANY treaties or promise, written or spoken.
Just one, "They said they would take our land, and they took it".
The 'Peace Chiefs' and traitors were essential to that undertaking but
they were NOT reformers, unless by reformer you mean libertarian
self-centrism.
They are the kind of people who told the jews in Germany that Hitler &
co really didn't MEAN Vernichtung when he said 'Vernichtung'. But they
knew what he meant, they just hoped to appease, and avoid similar fates
for themselves.
But he meant it:
http://www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/htmld/Ver-20.html , and
generallyspeaking it didn't affect their fate.
In the US, for the WWII Japanese, the JACL would be an interesting case
study in the sort of complicity I'm speaking of...
Leigh
