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US congressman blames Cold War thinking for spy scandal
Published: 08 July, 2010, 11:37
Edited: 27 July, 2010, 12:34
TAGS: Military, Scandal, Russia, Interview, Politics, Law, Afghanistan, USA
As the spy intrigue between Moscow and Washington gets more twisted, RT spoke to US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher about current American policy towards Russia and other burning political issues.
“I personally would have preferred that the head of our government had gone privately to the top leadership in Russia and said – Look, here is what we have. We’ve set “the reset button”, these people were sent over here before we had done that. Let’s pledge to ourselves we are not going to do that any more and do it in a very quiet way. Whether or not someone just wanted to boast, some government bureaucrats here wanted to boast of their capability of defending the country or sending a message to other spies from other countries, I don’t know,” Mr. Rohrabacher told RT.
“I think what has happened is that Russian-American relations have been on somewhat of a rollercoaster. I certainly understand why when the Russian government totally opened up and did not receive the open-armed acceptance of people living in the US, that there were people in Russia who probably had some second thoughts. And I think it was really important that Obama ‘set the reset button’ to make sure our relations did not keep deteriorating as they were,” he added.
Dana Rohrabacher also said that there is a divide within the US as there are too many people who are obsessed with Putin’s KGB background and believe that Russia is becoming a Stalinist state again.
“And these people, frankly, have trouble getting out of the Cold War. People like myself who grew up with that have trouble throwing that aside and viewing Russia as something different from those slogans that they heard all of their life,” he concluded.
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The neocons are at this! Well, this way of thinking about Russians in America spells troubles for Russians in America. Now, it seems to be a Russian in the U.S will come to feel like a Muslim in the U.S. This is the real impact of socalled Spy cases. The exchange is very bad idea because the Russians are giving valuable spy agents for people who have not been charged with spy crimes. Russia is paying for not going all the way with the U.S/Israel military strike plans against Iran. "The Spying Russians" with the "deep cover" in the U.S was a deliberate PR case against Russia but the Russians did not have a counter response to it. Now, we are talking about exchanging fake spies with real spies. Things are getting worse and worse for Russia!
Honest interview with someone who obviously understands Afghanistan and Russia. Obviously, this was a brighter interview from your reporter. Good pick. Not one of those daily Gotta pieces from RT's street crew with Alyona's show If the Russians wanted to send spies to work at the agency they should have gotten them green cards, or sent them across the Mexican border as illegals, then have them elected to congress. Where there are more fifth columns imbeded in the democrat party than were in Franco's Spain. Does Russia even watch the US news? This interview is dead on with the way this was handled for press purposes and should have been a closed door deal, as the congressman states.
The truth is America's Military Industrial Complex had an apoplexy when Russia broke up the USSR. With the bogey man gone, what's going to our business. Ah ha! Iraq. Its a defensless country with lots of oil. Let's pull an "operation northwood.com". We almost did against Castro. We'll call this 9/11 and have "reason" against Saddam. We'll get our propaganda machine to stimulate people and guide them through the proper response, just like Pavlov's dogs. Works every time. Don't read "War is a Racket" by Major General Smedley Butler USMC. He won the Congessional Medal of Honor twice. He's dead now but prophecied what going. Bring it up on the internet.