March 19, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:ChomskyWatch Seems friend Noam (no
ChomskyWatch
Seems friend Noam (no relation to the ex-boy) will be speaking at USF today. Here's a tasty quote to start the blood pressure off.Chomsky, the noted MIT linguistics professor who is best known for his scathing critiques of U.S. foreign policy, says the United States itself was practicing terrorism when it bombed Afghanistan and forced the Taliban from power. And it was terrorism, Chomsky says, when President Bush -- without publicly providing conclusive proof, and without going to an international court of law -- decided he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive.""By the U.S. definition, those are textbook illustrations of international terrorism, which is the use of force or violence to attain political ends (and) the targeting of civilians through intimidation and fear," Chomsky said in a weekend phone interview from his Massachusetts home, before flying to the Bay Area to make a weeklong series of talks.
Yup, Noam, that's what pissed us off. It's not the deliberate targeting of civilians (although apparently, Chomsky thinks that deliberate targeting isn't when civilians are the only people you're going after; it's when you target a regime that builds military targets near housing projects). No, the reason we're mad is that Bin Laden didn't visit an International Court of Law first.
Question for the legalists out there: does that make the 72 virgins Fruit of the Poison Tree?
Posted by Jane Galt at March 19, 2002 10:19 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links