Former Reagan Official: White House Sanctioned Georgia-Russia Conflict
Paul Craig Roberts, who was assistant secretary of the treasury during Ronald Reagan's presidency, sees the Georgia-Russia conflict differently than the Bush administration does: "Americans themselves have nothing to gain," Roberts said Friday; "What is operating is the dangerous ideology of the American neoconservatives whose goal is to assert American hegemony over the entire world."Paul Craig Roberts, who was assistant secretary of the treasury during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, sees the Georgia-Russia conflict differently than the Bush administration does: “Americans themselves have nothing to gain,” Roberts said Friday; “What is operating is the dangerous ideology of the American neoconservatives whose goal is to assert American hegemony over the entire world.”
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