Why the Wilson Center Had To Go—From a Former Employee

I had joined the Wilson Center with the hope of contributing to meaningful dialogue in a respected institution around issues of consequence to the Western Hemisphere, but I could no longer ignore the way it cloaked state violence and elite impunity in the language of liberalism and polite debate. He greenlit coups in Chile and Argentina, enabled genocides in East Timor and Bangladesh, prolonged the Vietnam War, and supported the carpet bombing of Cambodia and Laos. The center's boardrooms and panels overflow with figureheads from the military-industrial complex and from institutions central to some of the worst actions Washington has carried out globally.

Author: Joseph Bouchard

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