The Forty Years War

Jan 7, 2010

World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.

Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman talk about the impact of the neoconservative movement on presidential foreign policy decisions going back to the Nixon administration.  They say that neoconservatives have successfully influenced U.S. presidents from both political parties, reaching the height of their .. Read More

Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman talk about the impact of the neoconservative movement on presidential foreign policy decisions going back to the Nixon administration.  They say that neoconservatives have successfully influenced U.S. presidents from both political parties, reaching the height of their influence during George W. Bush's two terms in office.  Mr. Colodny and Mr. Shachtman spoke at the World Affairs Council in Washington, DC.   

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:05 Unidentified Speaker Guest: THE CENTRAL MESSAGE IS RECONSIDER YOUR POSITION. MAYBE YOU ARE SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS THAT ACTUALLY...
00:00:23 Unidentified Speaker Host: WE ARE SPEAKING WITH PROFESSOR SHAPIRO FROM HIS BOOK IS THE WEREWOLF THEIR STATE JUSTIFIED? THANK...
00:02:00 Unidentified Speaker FIRST-EVER LIKE TO SAY TO COVER THE SUBJECT MATTER THAT IS NEVER DONE TOTALLY AND THAT IS VERY TRUE...
00:08:14 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS ONE PERSON IN THE BOOK FROM MANY OF THE CHARACTERS ARE FAMILIAR TO MOST READERS THERE IS ONE...
00:08:31 Unidentified Speaker WRITING THIS BUT I CAME AWAY WITH A NAGGING QUESTION AND I DID NOT HAVE AN ANSWER AND I COULD NOT EXPLAIN...
00:16:13 Unidentified Speaker IF YOU SEE THE JOURNEY. Host: WHAT OF THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED THIS NIXON WAS MANEUVERED OUT OF OFFICE...
00:19:58 Unidentified Speaker TOM MENTIONED THE DISCLOSURES THE MEETINGS WITH THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR WHICH YOU FOUND BY GOING THROUGH...
00:20:42 Unidentified Speaker A VAST ARRAY OF BOOKS OR MATERIAL LIKE THAT THERE ARE 600 FOOTNOTES IN THIS BOOK. WE TRY TO HAVE NOTHING...
00:22:37 Unidentified Speaker WAS TRYING 10,000 TROOPS BY NOT DEFINITION IT WAS A RAPID OF WITHDRAWAL BUT
00:22:49 Unidentified Speaker TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE OPPOSITION GALVANIZED AND VALHI CREAMER WOULD BE SO VOCAL THAT THE PENTAGON BECAUSE...
00:30:44 Unidentified Speaker A LOT OF THIS IS MATERIAL THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT OVER AND OVER, OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS BUT THERE...
00:31:06 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T THINK THEY WERE HEADED L.A. BUT WE DID NOT UNDERSTOOD THE CONTEXT BUT NOT UNTIL WE UNDERSTOOD...
00:35:35 Unidentified Speaker MAYETH ADD A LITTLE BIT THERE? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID RELENTLESS IN THIS BOOK WAS TO GO BACK...
00:38:25 Unidentified Speaker IF ANY OF US HAD BEEN FOLLOWING SOMETHING CALLED THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY IN THE 1990'S WE WOULD HAVE...
00:40:56 Unidentified Speaker YOU TALKED EARLIER ABOUT THE SPY RING RUN BY THE CHAIRMAN AND THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF. I'M NOT SURE...
00:41:17 Unidentified Speaker IN A VERY STRANGE WAY WHEN I WAS WRITING MY FIRST BOOK I FOCUSED ON SOMETHING SY HERSH HAD WRITTEN ABOUT...
00:44:15 Unidentified Speaker I THINK I HAVE TO ADD THEIR THAT THE JOINT CHIEFS BEGAN ITS ESPIONAGE OPERATION BECAUSE THEY WERE BEING...
00:46:35 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS IN THE BOOK THAT SHOW HOW CERTAIN ITEMS SUCH AS THE PARTY PLATFORM ARE OUT...
00:46:53 Unidentified Speaker I THINK YOU HAVE TO SAY WE DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL. WE DON'T KNOW IT ALL TO FINISH THE BOOK THAT COVERED...
00:50:47 Unidentified Speaker I'VE GOT ONE MORE QUESTION FOR TOM AND THEN I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE. YOU ARE...
00:51:04 Unidentified Speaker THE THING THAT SURPRISED ME THE MOST WAS THE MORE THAT WE UNCOVERED, THIS YOUNGER AREF VISAS BECAME....
00:54:01 Unidentified Speaker AND AT THE VERY AND AS HE IS GETTING READY TO LEAVE KRAMER TELLS THEM WHAT A GREAT MOVE IT WAS TO MAKE...
00:54:28 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS FOR ANYBODY OUT THERE.
00:54:38 Unidentified Speaker ALMOST EXACTLY HALFWAY THE COMMUNISM FALSE SEND IN THE EVENT THAT VIRTUALLY NO ONE WITH NONVIOLENCE...
00:55:20 Unidentified Speaker WHAT HE IS ASKING IS, COMMUNISM FELL SO QUICKLY AND WE WERE LEFT ESSENTIALLY WITHOUT AN
00:55:26 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT THE MIXER AND THERE WAS A MEETING DOWN THE STREET HERE IN 1991...
00:57:50 Unidentified Speaker ANY MORE?
00:57:54 Unidentified Speaker
00:57:57 Unidentified Speaker THE WAY IN WHICH THE COLD WAR MORPHED OVER DECADES TO A WAR AGAINST REGULATION, UNIONS. TODAY WE STILL...
01:00:21 Unidentified Speaker
01:00:22 Unidentified Speaker SINCE THE NEOCONS HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY DISCREDITED, DISCREDITED, THE NEOCONS HAVE BEEN DISCREDITED AS...
01:00:46 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THEY ARE MOVING TO THAT, BECAUSE IF YOU LISTEN TO CHENEY CAREFULLY HE IS TALKING IN EXACTLY...
01:02:14 Unidentified Speaker TOM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO WEIGH
01:02:16 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T THINK I CAN SAY ANYTHING THAT IS GOING TO TOP THAT. BUT THERE IS A BASIC PROBLEM HERE, WHICH...
01:04:46 Unidentified Speaker
01:04:50 Unidentified Speaker I AM GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP THE PROJECT OF NEW AMERICAN CENTURY, THE SIGNATORIES THERE TOO. LIAR READ THAT...
01:06:20 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WE DID. WIRETAPS, A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS, TORTURE A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS BUT I WANT TO GO BACK...
01:08:01 Unidentified Speaker
01:08:04 Unidentified Speaker HAS HENRY KISSINGER SENOR BOOKEND HAVE YOU GOTTEN ANY
01:08:08 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD COPIOUS IN THE BOOK. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THE BOOK INTO LIKE THE BOOK WILL HAVE ACCESS...
01:09:54 Unidentified Speaker KISSINGER PAUSE THE A. I WOULD LIKE THAT ADDED LITTLE BIT. DIRECTLY TO DR. KISSINGER'S WEB SITE WHERE...
01:11:49 Unidentified Speaker DID VERY PASSIONATE ARGUMENT BY THE WAY AND ANNETTE QUOTE TO JAMES ROSEN, HEGGS SAYS I LOVE THE MAN....
01:12:27 Unidentified Speaker I WAS WONDERING I THINK THERE WERE OTHERS PROBABLY THAT DID NOT BELIEVE IN THAT STRATEGY AND WERE LOTS...
01:13:01 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WE DID LOOK AT THAT. I THINK WE INTERESTED WHAT WAS FLOATING AROUND OUT THERE. WE REPORTED WHAT...
01:14:58 Unidentified Speaker
01:14:59 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU SEE IS BECOMING MORE ISOLATIONIST? IN OTHER WORDS WE HAVE GOT INTO THIS AFGHAN WAR, AND IF IT...
01:15:17 Unidentified Speaker TOM? BTU THINK THAT THERE IS A RISK THAT WE WILL BECOME MORE ISOLATIONIST AS A NATION BECAUSE OF THIS...
01:17:36 Unidentified Speaker
01:17:40 Unidentified Speaker I AM FASCINATED BY YOUR DISCUSSION. I AM TERESE WHERE HIS INFLUENCE ACTUALLY STOPPED OVER THE LIMIT...
01:18:10 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS AN INTERESTING QUESTION AND I THINK THIS BOOK RAISES THE QUESTION BUT THIS ONE ANSWER...
01:19:09 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO ADD A LITTLE BIT THERE. GRAMMAR'S LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT A SWEARING-IN OUT CEREMONY...
01:22:18 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WE HAVE TIME FOR A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS.
01:22:30 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE A QUESTION CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEOCONS IN CORPORATE AMERICA ESPECIALLY THE...
01:23:06 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WHEN YOU ASK THIS ABOUT THE POWER AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF OIL, I DON'T THINK THAT IS AN IDEOLOGY....
01:24:31 Unidentified Speaker TOM, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY THE TAKE-AWAY MESSAGES FROM FOUR
01:24:36 Unidentified Speaker THE TAKE-AWAY MESSAGES WHAT WE ALL SAY ABOUT HISTORY IS THAT THE CANNOT HAVE A SENSE OF MIKE DIWAN IN...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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