Two Iraqis Who Don’t Think We’ve Done their Country Anything but Great Harm
By Mona
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A great video of Charlie Rose interviewing two Iraqis now living in the U.S. is available at Greenwald’s (brief ad click-through, and scroll down if you do not wish to read the entire post). What a concept! Asking Iraqis how they feel about the Great American Adventure in Democracy Building, aka the war against and occupation of Iraq. Shockingly, the two men whose “perspectives presented [there] are excluded almost entirely from establishment press discussions of Iraq and U.S. foreign policy,” are less than grateful.
Comment by Donald Johnson —
March 25, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
That was a good interview. I’d stopped watching Charlie Rose years ago, because too often he was fawning over someone like Tom Friedman, but I guess one has to give him some credit for putting on people like this.
I don’t recall ever seeing such views on the NYT op ed page. One of the Iraqis on Charlie Rose was actually talking about the US air attacks on Iraqi infrastructure in 1991. That was reported in the Washington Post and even in the NYT then, but it went down the memory hole never to resurface AFAIK, at least not in the Times.
Comment by Jebbie —
March 26, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
Mona, do you happen to have a URL for that video?
I’d like to use it elsewhere and I can’t seem to find it.
Comment by Mona —
March 26, 2008 @ 5:06 pm
Jebbie: Glenn thinks he got a truncated version and seems to think it should have been more like 30 minutes long. Or so he indicates while giving the url in a comment today.