FC: Novelist John le Carre: "The U.S. has gone mad!"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

le Carré's bio:
http://www.johnlecarre.com/newsite/index.htm

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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:22:12 +1100
From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
Organization: The Age newspaper
To: declan () well com
Subject: Novelist John le Carre slams Bush "Junta" in Iraq

The United States of America has gone mad
John le Carré

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is 
the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of 
Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped 
for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have 
made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. The 
combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once 
more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square 
is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press.

The imminent war was planned years before bin Laden struck, but it was he 
who made it possible. Without bin Laden, the Bush junta would still be 
trying to explain such tricky matters as how it came to be elected in the 
first place; Enron; its shameless favouring of the already-too-rich; its 
reckless disregard for the world's poor, the ecology and a raft of 
unilaterally abrogated international treaties. They might also have to be 
telling us why they support Israel in its continuing disregard for UN 
resolutions.

MORE:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-543296,00.html
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Nathan Cochrane
Deputy IT Editor
:Next:
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.next.theage.com.au 




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