unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=815&blz=1.
21 R. Scott Appleby, “History in the Fundamentalist Imagination,” Journal of
American History, 9/2002, 511.
22 Federation of American Scientists, “Nuclear Weapons,”
fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/, 1/2007.
23 Gerald Posner, Why America Slept (New York: Random House, 2003),
121, 152, 157, 169; Lappé and Marshall, True Lies, 52-53.
24 Some observers think the Taliban may only have been stalling.
25 Mahmood Mamdani, “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim,” in Eric Hershberg and
Kevin Moore, eds., Critical Views of September 11 (New York: New Press,
2002), 52; Seymour Hersh, Chain of Command (New York: Harper Perennial,
2005), 151.
26 There is a darker side to our work in Afghanistan. The CIA largely financed
the war against the USSR through the drug trade, as it had its wars in
Nicaragua and Southeast Asia. This prompted Afghanistan and neighboring
parts of Pakistan to become the world’s largest producers of heroin and opium.
Following principles in the Koran, the Taliban in 2000 largely ended
Afghanistan’s drug production. Today, under the government we installed in
2002, the most important crop in Afghanistan is again the opium poppy. Also,
the United States has imprisoned hundreds of alleged “enemy combatants”
from the war in Afghanistan for years now, and may simply hold them until they
die, without trial and even without letting them see family members or legal
counsel. This is precisely the behavior we lament when Third World countries
do it to our citizens.
27 Cheney and Bush, quoted in Staughton Lynd and Carl Mirra, “I Am a
Revisionist Historian,” History News Network, hnn.us/articles/22700.html.
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28 Colin Brown and Andy McSmith, “Diplomat’s Suppressed Document Lays
Bare the Lies Behind Iraq War,” The Independent , 12/15/2006,
news.independent .co.uk/uk/politics/article2076137.
29 Carl M. Cannon, “Untruth and Consequences,” Atlantic, 1/2007 the
atlantic.com/doc/200701/cannon-lying, 1/2007; Eric Alterman, “Liar, ‘Liar,’ ”
Nation, 12/11/2006, 9.
30 Lappé and Marshall, True Lies, 146.