Milt Beardon's been heard form before- remember that lefty film "Uncovered : The War in Iraq?":
Not much to uncover
[http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20040819-111607-7931r.htm]- Washington Times - The movie ["Uncovered: The War on Iraq"] boils down to: "Containment was working." That position, of course, is the default worldview of folks at the State Department (former Ambassador Joe Wilson sure gets around) and the CIA, whom Mr. Greenwald relies on almost exclusively.
One can argue about the wisdom of their Kissingerian, balance-of-power, don't-rock-the-boat school of foreign policy. I laughed out loud when Milt Bearden, an ex-CIA honcho, said such thinking has served the world pretty well since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia (the end of the Thirty Years' War). Mr. Bearden must have slept through the 20th century.
Also, I thought Robert Baer, another CIA dude, bordered on anti-Semitism with his snide little remark about how the neocons have never set foot in the Middle East, save for Tel Aviv — meaning they're all Jews. 8 posted on 08/20/2004 4:44:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe | To 4