NC on war against terror

[Mark Pavlick]

>http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
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>NOAM CHOMSKY
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>The New War Against Terror
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>October 18, 2001 - Transcribed from audio
>recorded at The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT
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>Everyone knows it's the TV people who run the world [crowd laugher]. 
>I just got orders that I'm supposed to be here, not there. Well the 
>last talk I gave at this forum was on a light pleasant topic. It was 
>about how humans are an endangered species and given the nature of 
>their institutions they are likely to destroy themselves in a fairly 
>short time. So this time there is a little relief and we have a 
>pleasant topic instead, the new war on terror. Unfortunately, the 
>world keeps coming up with things that make it more and more 
>horrible as we proceed.
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>Assume 2 Conditions for this Talk
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>I'm going to assume 2 conditions for this talk.
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>*	The first one is just what I assume to be recognition of 
>fact. That is that the events of September 11 were a horrendous 
>atrocity probably the most devastating instant human toll of any 
>crime in history, outside of war.
>*	The second assumption has to do with the goals. I'm assuming 
>that our goal is that we are interested in reducing the likelihood 
>of such crimes whether they are against us or against someone else.
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>If you don't accept those two assumptions, then what I say will not 
>be addressed to you. If we do accept them, then a number of 
>questions arise, closely related ones, which merit a good deal of 
>thought.
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