Comradeship // Freechat

Just reminded me of William Blum's "Rogue State". Osama bin Laden said that all Amerikans should read it to understand the terrifying gravity of their Amerikan empire. When questioned about bin Laden's support for his book, Blum said

"I was quite surprised and even shocked and amused when I found out what he'd said," Blum commented. "I was glad. I knew it would help the book's sales and I was not bothered by who it was coming from. If he shares with me a deep dislike for certain aspects of US foreign policy, then I'm not going to spurn any endorsement of the book by him. I think it's good that he shares those views and I'm not turned off by that." On the Bin Laden endorsement, Blum stated, "This is almost as good as being an Oprah book." In an interview on MSNBC Countdown, he said: "Basically it's US foreign policy which creates anti-American terrorists. It's the things we do to the world. It's not, as the White House tells us, that they hate our freedom and democracy. That's just propaganda."

(I also heavily recommend the book, although as an Amerikan who already knew that the empire was run by... evil, evil people - so vile and depraved that I can't help but return to idealistic moralism when I think of them - my brain was sort of shattered after reading it. The barbarism of the Amerikan state far surpasses any historical or contemporary villain, from the Spartans to the Nazis. Maybe even cumulatively from then to now. If every Amerikan could get their hands on this book and actually read it, the empire would collapse tomorrow. I'm convinced.)