Stephen Zunes and “the original U.S. goal of establishing a pro-American secular free market-oriented democratic government” in Iraq

Stephen Zunes and “the original U.S. goal of establishing a pro-American secular free market-oriented democratic government” in Iraq
By Gabriele Zamparini

In a revealing interview, Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus’ Middle East Editor, recently stated,

“Clearly the original U.S. goal of establishing a pro-American secular free market-oriented democratic government is now considered unreachable.”

Clearly that was the “original U.S. goal”, was it not?

Foreign Policy In Focus, a "Think Tank Without Walls", is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies whose fellows includes Phyllis Bennis, a famous leftist intellectual and activist who works closely with United for Peace and Justice.

All this seems much like those beautiful Chinese boxes; but the content is far more interesting, of course. So we have the Foreign Policy in Focus’ Middle East Editor, who’s also an associate editor of Peace Review, stating that “the original U.S. goal” in Iraq was “establishing a pro-American secular free market-oriented democratic government”. Now, one has just to add that this is supposed to be the American progressive, leftist, anti-war intelligentsia. God help us all!

Curiously, I had written about Stephen Zunes and Phyllis Bennis last year in July, in a blog titled Not only Fox News. Those were the times of the war of aggression of Israel against Lebanon, do you remember?

By the way, Foreign Policy in Focus’ website still displays on its Iraq in Focus’ page the notorious Iraq Body Count’s counter. But don’t bother to ask... they are certainly working on it. Are they not?

P.S. Just out of curiosity, I googled "Stephen Zunes" and it came out - among other things - this article written by Edward S. Herman. It's a good reading!