“color revolutions” of the past two decades. Several of the dossier’s features are relevant to the current crisis in Ukraine, which threatens to detonate world Says Good war: • Rice’s mentor Sir Alan Roberts and his younger Riddance to McFaul colleague Timothy Garton Ash led Oxford’s “Civil Resistance and Power Politics: Domestic and Interna- by Rachel Douglas tional Dimensions” project. Ash is currently hyper- active around Ukraine, last month signing an appeal Feb. 5—Many in Russia were glad to read in U.S. Am- of so-called “world intellectuals” in support of the bassador Michael McFaul’s blog yesterday that he is Euromaidan protests. On Feb. 2, in his regular column leaving Russia soon, after only a two-year stint at the in the Guardian, Ash advised not getting overly Embassy (the average term is around four years). worked up about what he termed the neo-Nazi “fringe” Commentator Dmitri Babich gave expression to these of the Ukraine street action. Most of the right-wing feelings in a Voice of Russia commentary today, activists, he reassured readers, “see themselves as na- saying that McFaul’s “tenure in was ex- tional revolutionaries fighting for independence from tremely unfortunate, extremely unsuccessful,” and Russia.” made a terrible contrast to the professionalism of his • Our exposé of McFaul’s Oxford trainers also predecessor, career diplomat . In particu- demonstrated that the violent neo-Nazi paramilitary lar, Babich said, people remember that McFaul as Am- groups and the orchestrators of the supposedly peace- bassador tweeted that Russia was a “savage” place, ful “color revolutions” are not two separate species; and that earlier, as a representative of the National rather, each is a form of irregular warfare. The finan- Democratic Institute and then the Carnegie Center, he cial sponsor of Gene Sharp’s color revolution play- cultivated the Russian extra-parliamentary political book was Harvard Prof. Thomas Schelling (later to opposition. become a Nobel laureate “for having enhanced our un- The Associated Press reported on Feb. 4 that McFaul derstanding of conflict and cooperation through game- said “his biggest frustration after two years as ambas- theory analysis”), using funds from the Defense De- sador is ‘our inability to dispel this myth that America partment’s Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Obama administration and me personally are (ARPA). seeking to foment revolution in Russia.’ ” Wrote Schelling of Sharp’s The Politics of Nonvio- lent Action: “The original idea was to subject the entire British Controllers theory of nonviolent political action, together with a Indeed. Part 2 of EIR’s 2012 dossier on the “White full history of its practice in all parts of the world since Revolution” attempt to destabilize Russian President the time of Christ, to the same cool, detailed scrutiny quoted McFaul’s 2011 interview with that military strategy and tactics are supposed to invite. Slon.ru: “Most Russia-watchers are diplomats, or spe- Now that we have Gene Sharp’s book, what we lack is cialists on security and arms control. Or Russian cul- an equally comprehensive, carefully study of the poli- ture. I am neither. I can’t recite Pushkin by heart. I am a tics of violent action. . . . It is too bad that we haven’t specialist in democracy, anti-dictatorial movements, that other book, the one on violent action. It would be and revolutions.” That Feb. 3, 2012 EIR article, “The good to compare the two in detail.” ‘Democracy’ Agenda of Michael McFaul and His Back in 1961, Schelling ran elaborate nuclear-war Oxford Masters,” was republished in Russian on nearly simulation games at Camp David with Henry Kiss- a hundred websites and linked to in scores of forums inger, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, and and tweets. others. As researcher Esther-Mirjam Sent put it, the war In that dossier, we documented the Oxford train- theory developed by Schelling—that is, by one of Mc- ing of McFaul and of current National Security Advi- Faul’s intellectual grand-daddies—“consisted of nu- sor Susan Rice, as well as Oxford’s patronage of clear deterrence, crisis management, limited war, arms Gene Sharp, author of the key handbook for the control, and coercion and compellence.”

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