[A-List] Re: US Imperialism: Swallowing Britain.

["brendan holland" <brendan.holland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barsamian interviews Chomsky...............
The interview is from the July/August issue of Z Magazine..

What do you make of British Prime Minister Tony Blair being quoted on
"Nightline" on March 31 saying, "This is not an invasion."

Tony Blair is a good propaganda agent for the United States: He's
articulate, sentences fall together, apparently people like the way he
looks. He's following a position that Britain has taken,
self-consciously, since the end of World War II. During World War II,
Britain recognized-we have plenty of internal documents about it-what
was obvious; Britain had been the world-dominant power and it was not
going to be after World War II-the U.S. was going to be. Britain had to
make a choice: Is it going to be just another country, or is it going to
be what they called a junior partner of the United States? It accepted
the role of junior partner. And that's what it's been since then.
Britain has been kicked in the face over and over again in the most
disgraceful way and they sit there quietly and take it and say, "Okay,
we will be the junior partner. We will bring to what's called the
coalition our experience of centuries of brutalizing and murdering
foreign people. We're good at that." That's the British role. It's
disgraceful.