Hegemonic Tyrant Courts Doom
by Paul Craig Roberts
Finding itself in Republican sights and with no Democratic power center to offer protection, National Public Radio is turning into an upscale version of Fox “News.” Nevertheless, information still gets out if the listener is sufficiently attentive.
On July 5, NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed two warmongers for their views on the North Korean missile test. One was Ashton Carter, a Clinton administration assistant secretary of defense, now at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The other was Ambassador Christopher Hill, an assistant secretary of state in the Bush regime.
The Clinton DoD assistant secretary is coauthor of a recent article advocating a unilateral U.S. military attack on North Korea. His first pitch on NPR was that the whole region, not just the U.S., is threatened by North Korea and that everyone should gang up on North Korea to make them behave. The NPR interviewer asked Carter to reconcile his multilateralism with his own recommendation for the U.S. to unilaterally attack North Korea. Carter replied that North Korea’s missile was developed to attack us, so we had to protect ourselves. (more…)