A really good article about blowback & foreign policy

[Spike]

I don't know if this has been posted, but its a really great article. Its from the Nation, but this is still worth checking out. Its about Chalmers Johnson, a former Navy man, cold war consultant to the CIA and emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego and his view on American foreign policy. He says we need to get rid of the CIA and restore intelligence collecting to the State Department. But he doesn't know about Dr. Paul, (how can that be?)

Here's an excerpt:
From Johnson's perspective, neither Congress nor the American public nor the Democratic Party offers much hope. Gazing into his crystal ball, Johnson reports that "we will never again know peace, nor in all probability survive very long as a nation, unless we abolish the CIA, restore intelligence collecting to the State Department, and remove all but purely military functions from the Pentagon."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071029/holmes

[Paulitician]

Because looking at things in context and trying to figure out causality is leftist, didn't you know? That's why Ron Paul isn't really a Republican, but he is not known by Democrats because they just look at the labal Republican and all of a sudden their brains shut off (actually, their brains are always shut off)! That means Ron Paul is kooky fringe!