{"id":40292,"date":"2016-06-14T16:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40292"},"modified":"2016-06-14T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:44:21","slug":"a-small-minority-of-powerful-people-who-remain-in-power-by-convincing-the-rest-of-us-to-keep-killing-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40292","title":{"rendered":"A small minority of powerful people who remain in power by \u201cconvincing the rest of us to keep killing each other\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/EdHxFXnh_400x400.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30245\" src=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/EdHxFXnh_400x400.jpeg\" alt=\"EdHxFXnh_400x400\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"headline__subtitle\">Former CIA Officer: Listen To Your Enemy, Because \u2018Everybody Believes They Are The Good Guy\u2019<\/h2>\n<h3>Amaryllis Fox is still in the process of getting her CIA cover rolled back.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"author-card__details__link\" href=\"http:\/\/new.www.huffingtonpost.com\/author\/cavan-sieczkowski\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;author&quot;}}\"><span class=\"author-card__details__name\">Cavan Sieczkowski<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nThe Huffington Post<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry__header\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;headline&quot;}}\">\n<li class=\"author-card\">\n<div class=\"author-card__details\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dk79lclgtez2i.cloudfront.net\/p0HUUa?app=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry__content js-entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry__body js-entry-body\">\n<div class=\"top-media\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;top_media&quot;}}\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click on the video to enlarge.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"top-media\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;top_media&quot;}}\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"top-media\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;top_media&quot;}}\">&#8212;<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry__content js-entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry__body js-entry-body\">\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<p>Amaryllis Fox is a writer, a peace activist and a former CIA Clandestine Service officer.<\/p>\n<p>She recently sat down with Al Jazeera\u2019s AJ+ to discuss what she\u2019s learned from working undercover in counterterrorism for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Her takeaway? Listen to your enemy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<p>\u201cIf I learned one lesson from my time with the CIA, it is this: Everybody believes they are the good guy,\u201d Fox said in a video shared by AJ+ on Facebook Monday.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the Islamic State militant group, Fox says the public conversation is \u201cmore oversimplified than ever\u201d and encompasses stories \u201cmanufactured\u201d by a small minority of powerful people who remain in power by \u201cconvincing the rest of us to keep killing each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She believes understanding comes with listening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only real way to disarm your enemy is to listen to them,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you hear them out, if you\u2019re brave enough to really listen to their story, you can see that more often than not you might\u2019ve made some of the same choices if you\u2019d lived their life instead of yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/new.www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/amaryllis-fox-undercover-cia-video_us_57600d31e4b0e4fe5143afc6\">http:\/\/new.www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/amaryllis-fox-undercover-cia-video_us_57600d31e4b0e4fe5143afc6<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA Officer: Listen To Your Enemy, Because \u2018Everybody Believes They Are The Good Guy\u2019 Amaryllis Fox is still in the process of getting her CIA cover rolled back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}