Paul Brill van de Volkskrant 8

'‘De Bekende Formule’
januari 6, 2008,

Paul Brill van de Volkskrant interviewde vandaag Robert D. Kaplan in de Rode Hoed op een nogal vrolijk en meer bedeesd dan kritisch Volkskrantmiddagje met champagne na. Brill’s vragen misten stekels en Kaplan vertelde vooral veel niet.

Kaplan doet mij denken aan Il Conformista van Moravia, en aan wat Noam Chomsky een paar jaar terug in overtreffende trap over Kaplan zei:

“Nobody except the ultra-right wing jingoists like Kaplan is comparing atrocities by various countries. What honest people are saying, is that we should pay attention to our own crimes, and stop committing them. … the just cause for people like Kaplan is: ‘we did it, therefore it’s a just cause.’ You can read that in the Nazi archives too.” [N. Chomsky "9-11" April 16, 02]'

Zie: http://lacile.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/de-bekende-formule/

'Nogal vrolijk en meer bedeesd dan kritisch' interviewen van een spreekbuis van de neoconservatieven, Robert D. Kaplan, over het leed van honderden miljoenen slachtoffers. Die houding wordt mogelijk gemaakt door het feit dat voor Nederlandse journalisten elk woord in wezen consequentieloos is, zolang dat woord de macht niet aanvalt.

'In addition to his journalism, Kaplan has been a consultant to the U.S. Army's Special Forces Regiment, the United States Marines, and the United States Air Force. He has lectured at military war colleges, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums, and has appeared on PBS, NPR, C-Span, and Fox News. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the recipient of the 2001 Greenway-Winship Award for Excellence in international reporting. In 2002, he was awarded the United States State Department Distinguished Public Service Award. From 2006 to 2008 Kaplan was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the United States Naval Academy, [[Annapolis]. He is currently a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.' Zie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Kaplan