David Dionisi, 9/11, and the Teach Peace Foundation

Over the last 24 years, David Dionisi has amassed deep expertise in military policy, foreign policy, and leadership. He is a former military intelligence officer, corporate officer, and international volunteer. He is also the author of a book on U.S. foreign policy, American Hiroshima, and the founder of the Teach Peace Foundation. In this interview, which was broadcasted on cable television in the San Francisco bay area, Mel Van Dusen asks David Dionisi about his perspective on 9/11 and his work on strengthening American democracy. Among other interesting points, David Dionisi makes the case that reckless spending on the “war-on-terror”, limitation of civil rights, and imperialism abroad actually works against the effort to make us safer in our communities. And he maintains that to really thwart terrorism while maintaining the ideals that make America great, we must learn to understand its root causes, and we must resist temptations to adopt military and other oppressive "solutions" that address immediate symptoms but promote root causes and subsequent "blowback" events such as 9/11. He also points out that Osama bin Laden does not claim responsibility for all of the destructive events that occurred on 9/11. And he further points to publicly available evidence that suggests that the leaders of the Bush administration knew that the invasion of Iraq would lead to its destabilization, and that their true purpose for invading Iraq was not to fight terrorism, eliminate weapons of mass destruction, liberate the Iraqi people, or any of their other pretexts, but rather to assure continued world dominance in the coming century by seizing control of a critical mass of the water and oil in the middle east today.

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Google Video | October 15, 2007

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