Notable Quotable: Chris Hedges On Gangster State
Today's notable quotable comes from Chris Hedges—a Pulitzer prize-winning author, former war correspondent, and Presbyterian minister.
“The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence. The immolation of international and humanitarian law, as the U.S. and Israel have done in Gaza, and as took place in Caracas, generates a world without laws, a world of failed states, warlords, rouge imperial powers and perpetual violence and chaos. If there is one lesson we should have learned in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya it is that regime change spawns Frankensteinian monsters of our own creation. The Venezuelan military and security forces will no more accept the kidnapping of their president and U.S. domination – done as in Iraq to seize vast oil reserves -- than the Iraqi security forces and military or the Taliban. This will not go well for anyone, including the U.S.”
— Chris Hedges
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Slipstream
Yes to all that he says. It's maddening and saddening.
Well Street
I've heard our involvement and the subsequent aftermath in the countries that Mr. Hedges listed described as a Pandora's Box, but Frankensteinian monsters are a brilliant and terrifying description.