US spying on France dishonorable act: Pundit

Press TV has conducted an interview with Joe Iosbacker, with the United National Anti-war Coalition in Chicago, to discuss the US spying on French President Francois Hollande and his two predecessors.

This is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Joe Iosbacker give us your reaction on this and I find it really amazing that the US has actually come out rejecting all the allegations given the track record that the NSA has.

Iosbacker: Well, I have to start by saying that there is no honor among thieves. Yes, Paris is upset because Wikileaks has exposed that the US government is still spying on one of its allies, its oldest allies as President Obama has called them, and I guess for domestic consumption the US is denying the charges but it is entertaining to watch the thieves bickering with each other and of course the US deserves to be publicly chastised for its violations of privacy of its oldest ally. Spying on friends, lying to them, that is the behavior that is dishonorable and as Obama likes to say America is above that or better than that. But of course the US government is a hypocrite.

So, I think it is important to understand this spat between these old pirates. First, the US and France are imperialist on the world stage. Of course the US is the sole superpower but until the second world war France was an imperialist power of the first order, it ranked above the US, second only to the Britain, with its colonies in Africa, South East Asia and Middle East and as imperialists, the two countries share in exploiting the global south and you know some times if you look back over the last ten years like what you see currently, the US and France are very close, so this spat is hurting France's feelings but a decade ago then the Bush administration carried out the invasion of Iraq without cutting their junior partners in and the French pirates...that they were being denied their share of the potential booty and in response the American press and pundits condemned France for denying the US and its manifest destiny over the whole world. Remember even that the American Fox News and others refused to call French fries, French fries, they called them freedom fries.

So Obama’s foreign policy was…on cutting the junior partners in NATO back into the deals, into the air share of worlds..., he was greeted as a returning hero when he defeated the republicans. So, it is understandable that Paris’ feelings are hurt when it is exposed that they are lying to them.  

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