Norman Solomon and “War Made Easy”
December 6th, 2008 by 2CDC
(email from PDA, 12/6/08)
on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”
Tune-in this Sunday, December 7!
For the first time, excerpts from the film “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death”–based on the book of the same name by Norman Solomon–will air on C-SPAN nationwide this Sunday, December 7. Norman is scheduled to appear as a guest on the “Washington Journal” program for a 45-minute segment that will include footage from the documentary. He’ll talk about the relevance of the Vietnam War and other U.S. military interventions to the current war in Iraq and plans to escalate the war in Afghanistan. The program will air live on C-SPAN starting at 7:30 a.m. Eastern time, and is expected to be repeated later in the day. For details on “Washington Journal” scheduling for Sunday, click here.
In comments prior to the broadcast, Norman said: “Among the ‘best and brightest’ who are set to oversee foreign policy for the next president, there appears to be a consensus for escalating the war in Afghanistan. The assumption bears an ominous resemblance to the political atmosphere and media tone during the mid-1960s, when the conventional wisdom was that everyone with a modicum of smarts knew that upping U.S. troop levels in Vietnam was a necessity.” Read the rest of this entry »
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