Terror Inc.

[Justin Schwartz]

> >
> >
> > As several people have observed, the source of terror is NOT 
>Afghanistan.
> > However, what the U.S. has truly excelled at in the last twenty years is 
>in
> > the destruction of small and completely helpless countries.
>
>A century ago the imperialist slogan was "Speak softly and carry a big
>stick." In the last 30 years they have substituted the slogan, "Screech
>loudly and stick it to a small country."
>
>Carrol

I wouldn't care to minimize the damage the US government has done in the 
last 20 years and longer than that--WWII excepted--to many small countries. 
As Chomsky has argued (mainly in the context of insisting taht the term 
"terrorism" is pretty useless), many of these actions fir the definition of 
terrorism if that is understood as violence perpertrated against civiliams 
for political ends. However, it's wrong to deny that Afhghanistan allowed 
itself to become an haven for a particularly nasty gang of 
political-religious thugs who recently committed sever acts of ghastly mass 
murder here in the US. As you know, I do not think that justifies war. But 
the fact should not denied, nor the necessity for some response--in my view 
an international politice response--to the crimes committed by thise 
hoodlums. jks

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