26 Apr, 2013
Shock: Tom Brokaw Acknowledged That America’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost| Alternet
April 25, 2013 | “The stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” — Reverend Jeremiah Wright
In 2008, the hysterical backlash to the above comment by Barack Obama’s minister became a high-profile example of one of the most insidious rules in American politics: You are not allowed to honestly discuss the Central Intelligence Agency’s concept of “blowback” without putting yourself at risk of being deemed a traitor to country.
Now, five years later, with America having killed thousands of Muslim civilians in its drone strikes and wars, that rule is thankfully being challenged — and not by someone who is so easily smeared. Instead, the apostate is one of this epoch’s most revered journalists — and because of that, we will see whether this country is mature enough to face one of its biggest national security quandaries.
Read the rest: Shock: Tom Brokaw Acknowledged That America’s Attacks Abroad Increase the Risk of Attacks at Home | Alternet.
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