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A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. ‘He repeatedly asserted that the only way to drive the U.S. from the Muslim world and defeat its satraps was by drawing Americans into a series of small but expensive wars that would ultimately bankrupt them,’ Eric Margolis writes. ‘“Bleeding the U.S.,” in his words.’ The United States, first under George W. Bush and then Barack Obama, rushed right into bin Laden’s trap… Grotesquely overblown military outlays and debt addiction… may be the most pernicious legacy of the man who thought he could defeat the United States—particularly when the debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with the collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny.
Excerpt from the new preface of the 10th anniversary reissue of Noam Chomsky’s 9-11: Was There an Alternative?. (via prshnth)
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.
-Noam Chomsky
This man ^ is extrodinary.Picture; aftermath of a suicide bombing in Pakistan
“If they do it, it’s terrorism. If we do it, it is “counter-terrorism”
Noam Chomsky
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky (via revolutionnow)
Vile as the atrocities on 9/11 were, one can easily imagine worse. Suppose that al-Qaeda had been supported by an awesome superpower intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. Suppose that the attack had succeeded: al-Qaeda had bombed the White House, killed the president, and installed a vicious military dictatorship, which killed some fifty thousand to one hundred thousand people, brutally tortured seven hundred thousand, set up a major center of terror and subversion that carried out assassinations throughout the world, and helped establish neo-Nazi “National Security States” elsewhere that tortured and murdered with abandon. Suppose further that the dictatorship brought in economic advisors – call them “the Kandahar boys” – who within a few years drove the economy to one of its worst disasters in U.S. history while their proud mentors collected Nobel Prizes and received other accolades. That would have been vastly more horrendous than 9/11. And as everyone in Chile knows, it is not necessary to imagine, because it in fact did happen, right here: on “the first 9/11,”, September 11, 1973.
Noam Chomsky (via azspot)
I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.
Noam Chomsky, September 19, 2001 (read the full interview here) (via dangerouslycoldtea)
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it’s not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.
Noam Chomsky, Talk titled “Distorted Morality” at Harvard University, February 2002 [148]
