Friday, December 9, 2011

Oh, the irony.


Watching the recent treatment of Occupy, we just knew this was going to happen, didin't we?
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the United States supported the right to peaceful protest in Russia as it does “anywhere in the world.”
“We expect that those demonstrations will remain peaceful on behalf of all parties, whether they’re the demonstrators or whether they are those keeping social order,” she said.“So our expectation is that if there are protests, that they will be peaceful and that they will be allowed to proceed peacefully,” Nuland said.
 Irony alert: U.S. calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests
by Agence France Presse

 Huh? or more appropriately, WTF.

2 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Tom,

What one group of entities are doing to the Occupy protests here, is actually weakening the US foreign policy stance abroad.

Do you see a dichotomy between say 'the forces of finance' who I believe are behind the domestic suppression and 'the forces of the imperialist/militarist' side of things who seek to impose the US foreign policy?

Do you see these 2 things as separate or the same things?

The domestic crack down has to make the CIA's/military anti-insurgency job harder so to speak. Harder to win the "hearts and minds" which is now the modern military credo in these theaters in which we have the military deployed.

Perhaps if these are two conflicting forces they are on a collision course to some sort of a confrontation?

A conflict of sorts setting up between finance's domestic "hired goons" tactics and the military?

If you have the military putting it on the line to "win the hearts and minds" and they look back here and see a bunch of goons suppressing the same principles they are risking life for, how long is it going to take for them to get really pissed.

Resp,

Tom Hickey said...

Matt, MIchael Hudson sees a conflict growing between the interests of finance capital and industrial capital. what you mention can be viewed as part of that.