KZYX – Pacifica Radio Talk Show about “America’s Defense Line”
Blankfort: …we see it yesterday in the debates playing out..
Smith: Right, everyone is reading from the script. And, of course, some of the things you’d actually need to discuss within the context of all of this effort to demonize and portray Iran now as an immanent threat to the United States, some of the key factors you would have to discuss go right back to this period (the formation of AIPAC). Well, what about Israel’s nuclear weapons? What about the fact that Jimmy Carter is the first former president to confirm that yes, in fact they do have their own arsenal? An arsenal which, by the way, many of the same people around these earlier lobbies were active in financing and diverting attention from? How can you have a discussion about regional non-proliferation if you don’t even acknowledge the fact that this country has its own substantial arsenal? The fact you can’t be open or discuss any of these things is making the debate and making the presidential discussion of regional policy “other worldly” to say the least. Audio Download (MP3)