The insightful and celebrated American
analyst Chalmers Johnson addressed this question in his Blowback trilogy. It is
an even more remarkable read today than it was seven years ago. Here is a link
to a PBS interview as an introduction only while much more is available through
a little
googling...
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/27/chalmers_johnson_nemesis_the_last_days
EB
Thanks Ed
