In todays video, I spoke with Kelly Vlahos, of the Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft. We spoke about the Neocon role in starting and pushing for the Iraq War and the influence of their hawkish push in further wars, up until this day in Ukraine.
Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak
Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-interview-with-patrick-macfarlane-oppenheimer-usg-experimentation
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QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT
BIO - Kelley Beaucar Vlahos comes to QI from The American Conservative, where for the last three years she served as the magazine’s executive editor. Before joining TAC in 2017, Vlahos served as a contributing editor to the magazine, reporting and publishing regular articles on US war policy, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007. She also organized the magazine’s major annual foreign policy conference for the last three years. Prior to that, Vlahos was director of social media and a digital editor at WTOP News in Washington, DC from 2013 to 2017. She spent 15 years as an online political reporter for FOX News at the channel’s Washington D.C. bureau, as well as Washington correspondent for Homeland Security Today magazine. She is on the board of PublicSquare.net, a non-profit media project promoting informed Left-Right debate. Her recent media appearances include C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Tucker Carlson Tonight, NPR’s 1A, POTUS on Sirius XM, and Al Jazeera. Before moving to the nation’s capital, Vlahos earned her degree in Journalism-Mass Media at Central Connecticut State University and worked her way through local and regional newspapers in her home state of Connecticut, including The New Britain Herald and The Torrington Register Citizen. She is co-host of the Crashing the War Party podcast with Daniel Larison.
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Books
Scott Horton - Scotts Books -
Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan By Scott Horton
Enough Already: Time To End The War On Terrorism By Scott Horton
Jeremy Scahill - Jeremy's Books
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill
Michael Hastings
Peter Van Buren
Gian Gentile
Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency (2013) by Gian Gentile
Show Notes
Previous interview with Kelley - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/the-media-s-role-in-the-iraq-war-other-military-actions-an-interview-with-kelly-vlahos
https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/iraq-an-interview-with-matthew-hoh
Letter to Bill Clinton - January 26, 1998
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor" PNAC, Rebuilding America's Defences Page 51
https://resistir.info/livros/rebuilding_americas_defenses.pdf
“confirming Iraqi use of chemical weapons. We also know that Iraq has acquired CW production primarily from Western firms, including possibly a U.S. foreign subsidiary” “Iraq Use of Chemical Weapons,” unclassified memo from Jonathan Howe to the secretary of state, November 1, 1983, National Security Archives, www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/iraq24.pdf.
"Normal relations between the United States and Iraq would serve our longer-term interests and promote stability in both the Gulf and the Middle East. The United States Government should propose economic and political incentives for Iraq to moderate its behavior and to increase our influence with Iraq. At the same time, the Iraqi leadership must understand that any illegal use of chemical and/or biological weapons will lead to economic and political sanctions, for which we would seek the broadest possible support from our allies and friends. Any breach by Iraq of IAEA safeguards in its nuclear program will result in a similar response. Human rights considerations should continue to be an important element in our policy toward Iraq. In addition, Iraq should be urged to cease its meddling in external affairs, such as in Lebanon, and be encouraged to play a constructive role in negotiating a settlement with Iran and cooperating in the Middle East peace process. (5)
We should pursue, and seek to facilitate, opportunities for U.S. firms to participate in the reconstruction of the Iraqi economy, particularly in the energy area, where they do not conflict with our non-proliferation and other significant objectives. Also, as a means of developing access to and influence with the Iraqi defense establishment, the United States should consider sales of non-lethal forms of military assistance, é.g., training courses and medical exchanges, on a case by case basis." NSD 26 10/02/1989 U.S. Policy Toward the Persian Gulf (3 pages)
Foreign Affairs Committee 28th June 2022 Parliament TV - 11 hour 18 min
First Debate Transcript: Page 5 By ABC News Oct. 3, 2000
Bill Kristol and Scott Horton Debate U.S. Interventionism Reason TV
MI6 regrets helping Vladimir Putin to win power, says ex-spy chief The Times October 1st 2018
War in Ukraine: The Economist interviews Tony Blair
Amazon and Microsoft battle for $10bn 'war cloud' contract with Pentagon