CIA Agent Exposes How Al-Qaeda Dosen't Exist

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47. Michael Scheuer is REALLY not a suitable person for progressives to quote

I'm not a fan of RT as a source; but at least one could say that it's giving a certain (unreliable) Russian perspective. But Scheuer is not Russian; he is an American hard-right isolationist of the old-fashioned 'America First' variety.

The 'Israeli lobby in the US are getting us into wars!' is classic xenophobic paranoia: in this case, anti-Semitism. It is easy to find youtube videos of his speeches which accuse Israel of 'owning Congress', etc. I won't link to them, but they're easy to find. But it's not only Jews that he's paranoid about; he seems to subscribe to almost every right-wing xenophobic anti-liberal conspiracy theory that exists.

He now has his own 'Non-intervention' blog:

http://non-intervention.com/

Note the following gem in particular (it reads almost like a parody of right-wing nuttery):


'How to do this? Well, first, impeachment is out of the question. The Congress is completely unable and unwilling to do anything to protect the American people from what has become the everyday-lawlessness of Obama and Eric Holder. An impeachment proceeding would immediately be identified by the Democrats and their slaves in the mainstream media as an effort by the nasty, racist Republicans to unseat the noble Black man who aspires to help all citizens by becoming America’s first, post-1776 monarch. Impeachment also is the road to perdition because it would give the Democrats’ various colonies of automatons — Ivy Leaguers, Blacks (even though Obama has been their economic scourge), school teachers, illegal immigrants, abortionists, environmentalists, gays, movie stars, most journalists, animal righters, socialists, the voting-rights-for-felons crowd, etc. — a cause to rally around in defense of their liege lord. Indeed, even a successful impeachment would be a defeat for America because the Democrats would not hesitate a second before bringing America to the brink of a race or civil war.'


Is this REALLY the sort of person on whose opinions we should be relying?

No, I do not think that most American (or British) interventions in the Middle East have been beneficial: most have been the product of a slightly different form of RW xenophobic paranoia, and have led to destabilization and disaster.