Author: Brandon Adamson
Date: April 11, 2018
Tags:
AltLeft,
AltRight,
anti war,
assad,
donald trump,
foreign policy,
gore vidal,
interventionism,
non-interventionism,
syria,
syrian war,
tom metzger,
trump,
war in syriaThe following exchange was taken from a 2002 interview with Gore Vidal on Doug Henwood’s WBAI radio show, after Henwood brought it to Vidal’s attention that Tom Metzger was offering videos of one of Vidal’s lectures for sale on his website. Doug Henwood: There is this long-standing, kind of right-leaning nativist critique of Empire and […]
Author: Brandon Adamson
Date: April 7, 2017
Tags:
AltLeft,
AltRight,
antiwar,
foreign policy,
foreign wars,
imperialism,
interventionism,
middle east,
neocons,
syria,
trump,
war“You know, I never feel comfortable on these sort of things. Victims? Don’t be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?” -Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949) So it’s official, Trump screwed the pooch. After campaigning for years as a non-interventionist […]