Wesley Clark admitted publicly to reading a US Defense Dept. memo in the mid 2000s that described a list of countries targeted for regime change within half a dozen years or so. Libya was on the list as were Iraq and Iran, Syria, Lebanon etc. How can apologists for the vicious empire possibly make them appear to be so many bungling Road to Singapore clowns in the service of imperialism in the way Bob Hope and Bing Crosby were when that kind of smoking gun confession by a former NATO supreme commander is dropped for the whole world to scoop?
It's like Chomsky describes. The world is run like the mafia, and nothing goes down without the godfather's approval..
I make to-do lists all the time. Sometimes shit gets done by someone else before I get around to it.
To whatever extent Chomsky's theory is correct, I think it only applies to state actors. People are certainly capable of saying 'enough is enough', and rising-up against their oppressors without needing the assistance or permission of the U.S.
I have to agree that denying the agency of the peoples of Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere comes across as racist.
