Continuing his streak of
fiercely criticizing President Obama's foreign policy and civil liberties
record, pre-eminent left-wing scholar Noam Chomsky told GRITtv that this
administration is "dedicated to increasing terrorism" throughout the
world via its own "terrorist" drone strikes in foreign lands.
Speaking with GRITtv host Laura Flanders about the National Security Agency
snooping scandal, Chomsky remarked that "the Obama administration is
dedicated to increasing terrorism; it's doing it all over the world."
He continued: "Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history: the drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it [...] All of these operations, they are terror operations." Drone strikes are "terror" because, Chomsky said, the attacks have the effect of "terrorizing" locals."
"You are generating more terrorist operations," Chomsky pointedly said. "People have a reaction" when they lose a loved one to an American drone strike, he added. "They don't say, 'Fine, I don't care if my cousin was murdered.' They become what we call terrorists. This is completely understood from the highest level."
He recalled the recent congressional testimony of a Yemeni man named Farea al-Muslimi, who described how a single drone strike managed to "radicalize" his entire village against the United States.
"People hate the country that's just terrorizing them," Chomsky concluded. That's not a surprise. Just consider the way we react to acts of terror. That's the way other people react to acts of terror."
He continued: "Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history: the drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it [...] All of these operations, they are terror operations." Drone strikes are "terror" because, Chomsky said, the attacks have the effect of "terrorizing" locals."
"You are generating more terrorist operations," Chomsky pointedly said. "People have a reaction" when they lose a loved one to an American drone strike, he added. "They don't say, 'Fine, I don't care if my cousin was murdered.' They become what we call terrorists. This is completely understood from the highest level."
He recalled the recent congressional testimony of a Yemeni man named Farea al-Muslimi, who described how a single drone strike managed to "radicalize" his entire village against the United States.
"People hate the country that's just terrorizing them," Chomsky concluded. That's not a surprise. Just consider the way we react to acts of terror. That's the way other people react to acts of terror."
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Very reasonable and true analysis.
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