John Perkins Quotes
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
Perkins, John. Interview with Amy Goodman. Democracy Now!, 9 Nov. 2004, www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man.
The inconsistency of the policy logic of attacking Iraq but not the other two countries of the "axis of evil" caused problems for our British allies who preferred justifying the attack on Iraq on its own merit without any linkage to Iran and North Korea. What made the Iraq invasion even more puzzling was that both Iran and North Korea were greater dangers to the United States and expressed a deep animus.
The practice became extensively used and the phrase along with it during the William Howard Taft administration where the media popularized it.
The Chinese government has strict censorship of its internet. The U.S. State Department has developed software to bipass the Chinese censorship. The purpose of this is to guarantee freedom of speech on the internet. However, the Chinese see an ulterior motive.
John Perkins is an American author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which Perkins claims to have played a role in an alleged process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government. The book's claims were met with skepticism and rebuttal, but spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been published in at least 32 languages, and is used in many college and university programs.
