His background is in law enforcement and not intelligence; law enforcement, particularly the FBI, has a reputation for preparing worst case assessments. “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”. I'm a Walt Kelly fan, but late Pogo is a shadow of itself. Walt Kelly’s Pogo remarked that “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” In terms of election interference, historically the United States has been the enemy abroad and now we are the enemy …
I always liked Kelly's attention to detail in things like backgrounds, flora, furry textures...but I never really got the characters or believed that Kelly understood anything about a swamp setting as a whole. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. There is more than 70 years of evidence of U.S. election interference abroad; the current interference at home is far more threatening. Stable economic relations are the key to China’s national interest in the global community.Russian influence operations in the 2016 election cannot be ignored, but U.S. voter suppression had a greater impact on the ultimate defeat of Hillary Clinton than anything orchestrated by the Kremlin. The strips that follow recount a minor narrative of an attempt to kidnap the pup dog, mixed with irrelevant other satirical matter, at least pertaining to that narrative. Good trouble, necessary …
The classic case of CIA interference took place in Guatemala from 1952 to 1954, an operation codenamed PBSUCCESS. Master Commandant Oliver Perry wrote to Major General William Henry Harrison, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”. This is the political, dark, moody Pogo. This small compendium is a bit frustrating in the way it is constructed, however. The ease of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s operations in Iran and Guatemala led directly to the disaster of President John F. Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs in Cuba.Shimer’s book makes no mention of the CIA role in the elections in Indonesia or the electoral politics of the Congo. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States invested several billion dollars on influence operations in Ukraine, including the promotion of anti-government riots, which is relegated to an obscure footnote in Shimer’s book.We are accustomed to the evidence of Soviet and Russian interference in foreign elections, but we have failed to acknowledge the history of U.S. efforts to undermine even democratic governments in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. In the Congo, President Eisenhower endorsed an assassination attempt against Patrice Lumumba, which led to the emergence of Joseph Mobutu, the worst tyrant in Africa’s history.
In 2017, Trump established the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, but appointed Kris Kobach, a staunch advocate of stricter voter ID laws, to head the commission.In other words, Putin’s impact on the election is modest compared to the damage that Trump and Republican legislators throughout the country can inflict. 1972! Walt Kelly was a philosopher, commentator, and cartoonist, but very subtle. by Simon & Schuster The Supreme Court placed George W. Bush in the White House in 2000; the court may not be needed to reelect Trump in 2020.The history of the United States and the CIA in foreign election interference is one of tragic failure. Ernie Bushmiller may be a hack but he can mop the floor with Walt Kelly any day of the week in my book. Published CIA director Gina Haspel has avoided taking a public position on the issue of such interference, yielding the briefing responsibility to William Evanina, the principal counterintelligence official in ODNI. 127p. Trump and the Republican emphasis on voter suppression, however, will do far more damage to the electoral process. I Go Pogo! The congressional investigations of illegal CIA activities in the 1970s omitted any discussion of the Guatemalan operation because it was such an embarrassment to the image of the United States and the Eisenhower administration. Tehran would like to return to the Iran nuclear accord of 2015; Biden offers that possibility while Trump offers the possibility of war.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. But if you don't know Pogo, check him out! The characters of the strip are unforgettable, set in the Okeefenokee swamp.Wonderful - pithy humor skewering the Nixon administration, so relevant again today it's spooky. China and Iran have good reason to prefer the election of Joe Biden in view of Trump’s tariff and trade war against China, and the campaign of maximum pressure against Iran.
The litigious and manipulative response of the Republican Party to the Florida election in 2000 presumably could be multiplied many times by various challenges and lawsuits to state elections throughout the country. One evening laying around his front room (which I am told is no longer called a parlor because of the Influenza epidemic of 1919), I spied (with my little eye) the spine of this Pogo book on his shelves. In Indonesia, CIA’s efforts to overthrow the government led to the rise of the largest communist party outside of the Soviet Union and China. The campaign against mail-in voting is creating uncertainty and cynicism throughout the country as is Trump’s constant ravings about vote by mail causing a fraudulent election. It’s rare that a debut novel gets the kind of love and attention that Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, which spanned centuries and continents, received. A headline in the The efforts of China and Iran, moreover, are aspirational and in no way comparable to the efforts of the Kremlin. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1951 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their Silver T-Square Award in 1972, given to persons having "demonstrated outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession."