ON EDIT: He was disgusting. Rose challenged him lightly, and his responses were lame, in my opinion. Rose thanked him profusely at the end of the interview, with the hope that Lewis would come an again soon.
Disgusting, but it's still good to hear these slime in their own words, I guess.
.rog.
Here he is:
Bernard Lewis: In the service of empire
http://electronicIntifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/976Lamis Andoni, The Electronic Intifada, 16 December 2002
"Bernard Lewis has brilliantly placed the relationships and the issues of the Middle East into their larger context, with truly objective, original -- and always independent -- thought. Bernard has taught how to understand the complex and important history of the Middle East and use it to guide us where we will go next to build a better world for generations."--
Paul Wolfowitz, speaking via video phone at a special ceremony held in Tel Aviv to honour the leading Orientalist in March.
American Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of the US war hawks are no doubt indebted to the Princeton historian: At the age of 86, Bernard Lewis has not only provided historical justification for Washington's "war on terror", but has also emerged as chief ideologue for the recolonisation of the Arab world through an American invasion of Iraq.
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Lewis, according to published reports and his own statements, has been involved in lobbying, shaping and promoting the Bush Administration's most hawkish policies in support of Israel against the Palestinians, and for the aggressive use of American military force in the region.
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On 19 February 2001, representatives of the alliance (i.e., PNAC, from prev. graf), including Lewis, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others, signed a letter urging President Bill Clinton to launch a military offensive, which would have included blanket bombings, to destroy the Iraqi regime. Since assuming power, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, have called on influential friends like Lewis, and a host of hard-line pundits, to press for an American war against Iraq.
In that capacity, Lewis has assumed a bigger "insider" role than some officials in the administration who were not included in the decision-making on Iraq. According to a report in USA Today, Lewis participated in a special meeting for the Defence Advisory Board, led by the leader of warmongers, Richard Perle, on 19 September 2001. The meeting that was scheduled before the 11 September attacks had occurred, was also attended by Lewis's friend Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress. By various accounts, Lewis's meetings with both President Bush, and especially a dinner with Vice-President Dick Cheney (during his days of seclusion in the immediate aftermath of 9/11), were crucial to promoting Wolfowitz's agenda of refocusing the administration's attentions on a war against Iraq.
-----much more in the article, linked above-----
Google search on Lewis and Chalabi:
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