\n“From my vantage point, I see this crisis as an updated version of the Kremlin’s highly secret Cold War effort to turn the Islamic world into an enemy of the United States. In my other life as a top figure in the KGB intelligence community, I was involved in that effort, as I have described elsewhere “Russian Footprints<\/em><\/font>,” National Review Online, August 24, 2006.”<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nLt. Gen. Pacepa points out that the current wave of rebellion in the Middle East is only occurring in countries that are pro-American and that the people demanding democracy are burning the American flag (Did you also notice that many of the protest signs are in English?). <\/p>\n
The article also points out something I hadn’t noticed about the early demonstrations in Egypt:<\/p>\n
\n“Even more significant is that the Hezb’allah representatives demonstrating on the first day of the Cairo uprising were carrying flags displaying the hammer and sickle. That was evidently a mistake caused by overzealousness — my enthusiastic young subordinates in the Romanian foreign intelligence service (the DIE) sometimes used to make similar goofs. In Cairo, the error was quickly rectified, and now the hammer and sickle is nowhere to be seen.” <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nPlease follow the link to the article at American Thinker. Lt. Gen. Pacepa details many of the facts that he used to draw the conclusion that the uprisings in the Middle East are a simple extension of the cold war. It is an interesting read.<\/div>\n
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