[Peace-discuss] Donald Trump May Select an Architect of Bush's Torture Program to Run CIA

[C. G. Estabrook]

Maybe not: 

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/trump-hints-ending-us-aid-support-syrian-militant-groups/ <https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/trump-hints-ending-us-aid-support-syrian-militant-groups/>


> On Nov 12, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Dear Carl:  Having read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal yesterday and today:It looks like Trump  has already been captured...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 12:41 PM
> To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
> Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net; futureup2us at gmail.com; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; a23h23 at yahoo.com; davidcnswanson at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; davetrippel at ameritech.net; mickalideh at gmail.com; lina at worldcantwait.net; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: Re: Donald Trump May Select an Architect of Bush's Torture Program to Run CIA
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> As Mark Twain is supposed to have said, history doesn't repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
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> In the decline of the American Empire, underway since its peak in 1945, our rulers have consciously substituted military repression for world-wide economic development, especially in regard to Eurasia. They've protected the profits of the 1% and - particularly since the 1970s - encouraged the increasing (and accelerating) concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
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> Our choice is to stand with that - and hope it's done nicely, without unnecessary killing - or oppose it, with the majority of the population of our country and the world.
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> Today, we need to begin by working to see that the Trump administration is not captured by the neoliberals and neoconservatives who have dominated all recent administrations, including particularly Obama's. 
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