[GPSCC-chat] Noam Chomsky on Osama

[Spencer Graves]

       There is a Wikipedia entry for Guernica Magazine, which says it 
'is a biweekly online site ... .  Guernica 's stated mission is to 
publish works that explore "the crossroads between art and politics".' 
It was founded in 2004 and became a not-for-profit corporation in 
Delaware in 2009.  It "is read in over 100 countries and overall, tens 
of thousands view the site every month."


       The narrative sounds like the clear, concise, observations we 
have come to expect from Chomsky, who is "the most cited living 
author."  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky)


       Thanks, Brian.
       Spencer


On 5/7/2011 10:50 AM, Brian Good wrote:
>
> I never heard of Guernica Magazine, so I suppose there's some slight 
> chance
> it's a hoax.
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> http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/
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>    It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned 
> assassination, multiply violating
> elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no 
> attempt to
>
> apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80
> commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his 
> wife, who
> lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, 
> suspects
> are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In 
> April 2002, the
> head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the 
> most intensive
>
> investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it 
> “believed” that the
> plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and 
> Germany. What
>
> they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months 
> earlier, when
>
> Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we 
> do not know,
>
> because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they 
> were presented
>
> with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus 
> Obama was
>
> simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we 
> quickly learned that
>
> the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”
>
>    Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin 
> Laden’s “confession,”
> but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. 
> He boasted of
>
> what he regarded as a great achievement.
>
>     There is also much media discussion of Washington’s anger that 
> Pakistan didn’t turn
> over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security 
> forces were aware
> of his presence in Abbottabad. Less is said about Pakistani anger that 
> the U.S. invaded
>
> their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American 
> fervor is already very
>
> high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it. The 
> decision to dump
> the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and 
> skepticism in much
> of the Muslim world.
>
>
>     We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos 
> landed at
> George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in 
> the Atlantic.
>  Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is 
> not a “suspect” but
>  uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the 
> “supreme
> international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it 
> contains within itself
> the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) 
> for which Nazi
> criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions 
> of refugees,
>  destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict 
> that has now
> spread to the rest of the region.
>
> There’s more to say about [Cuban airline bomber Orlando] Bosch, who 
> just died
> peacefully in Florida, including reference to the “Bush doctrine” that 
> societies that
>  harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and 
> should be treated
>  accordingly. No one seemed to notice that Bush was calling for 
> invasion and
>  destruction of the U.S. and murder of its criminal president.
>
> Same with the name, Operation Geronimo. The imperial mentality is so 
> profound,
> throughout western society, that no one can perceive that they are 
> glorifying bin
>  Laden by identifying him with courageous resistance against genocidal 
> invaders.
>  It’s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache,
> Tomahawk… It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 
> “Jew” and “Gypsy.” There is much more to say, but even the most 
> obvious and elementary facts
>
> should provide us with a good deal to think about.
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> Last fall Dr. Chomsky told Iranian TV that at the time of the attack 
> on Afghanistan,
> the US had no evidence that al Qaeda had done 9/11.  There's a good 
> 5-minute
>
> video about that here:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mprzq1mA9Jk
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