Nima R. Alkhorshid interviews former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman: Mamdani VICTORY, Development in the Levant, and the Wolfowitz Doctrime

The differences between Dems and Conservatives on domestic policies might be differ but on overall foreign policy, they merge into one bipartisan fist

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Amb. Chas Freeman: Mamdani’s VICTORY, Development in the LEVANT, and the WOLFOWITZ Doctrine

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In this interview which lasts more than an hour, it is the first 15 minutes that are relevant in which he discusses his take on the significance of the Mamdani victory in New York City, the repercussions of which the nation and the world are still trying to digest. Worth your time to listen to it. His discussion of the Mamdani election is followed by a brief commentary on the death of former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney, one of the masterminds of the U.S. War on Terrorism, which has contributed greatly to the destabilization of international relations.)

(Note: we are now three days after the NYC election of Mohamed Mamdani for mayor. No matter how it’s sliced, a historic election. NYC elects a young Moslem who grew up in Uganda and New York, who is a democratic socialist – if I am not mistaken, a member of Democratic Socialists of America. – The hysterical and racist, islamophobia campaign against him spearheaded by the likes of the Anti-Defamation League – ADL – and the country’s gazillionaires failed as a million “NYC- ites” gave the middle finger to the power of obscene wealth and racism hidden behind slogans of Israel’s “right” to defend itself. But what does it all mean? What are the chances of reform in NYC – not the financial reforms based upon austerity, but societal reform based upon the socio-economic needs and aspiration of the city’s middle and working class, its extraordinarily ethnically diverse population – a United Nations in and of itself – and its non-white racially oppressed minorities.?

The commentaries are emerging, most little more than verbal diarrhea. However, I found Chas Freeman’s commentary, interviewed by Nima R. Alkhorshid on his website “Dialogue Works” especially pertinent. Who is Chas Freeman?

Freeman represents, to my mind, one of the more sophisticated analysists of the U.S. foreign policy – a dying breed if you like.

As his bio in Wikipedia notes, Charles W. Freeman Jr. (Chinese: 傅立民, born March 2, 1943) is an American retired diplomat and writer. He served in the United States Foreign Service, the State and Defense Departments in many different capacities over the course of thirty years. Most notably, he worked as the main interpreter for Richard Nixon during his 1972 China visit and served as the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992, where he dealt with the Gulf War.). To give a brief example of the breath of his diplomatic activities: Freeman accompanied Nixon on his historic 1972 trip to China to meet Mao Tse Tung. Later he was U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia serving before and after Operation Desert Storm )