Robert Scheer: Foreign Entanglements Derailed the American Experiment
In the eighth installment of an interview series on The Real News Networks Reality Asserts Itself, Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer tells TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay that over time, American leaders have lost sight of the essential wisdom of the American experiment, which was that if you enable prosperity for your own people, and if its good, others will follow it.
How did the U.S. get into this predicament? Because of the very thing that George Washington warned about, the impostures of pretended patriotism, Scheer says. We get into it because we havent avoided foreign entanglements. So we see we get crazed with hysteriaoh, they did that to us. Theyre the enemy. Theyre going to get us. Theyre going to blow us up. Theyre going toyou know, irrationality. Nationalism has an irrational side. Warmaking appeals to people. Theres a culture that supports warmaking and stupidity and simplicity.
The interview is part of a 10-part series conducted after the publication of Scheers book, They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy. Watch Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven.
A transcript of the discussion provided by The Real News Network appears below.
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