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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." <br>
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The narrative sounds like the clear, concise, observations we
have come to expect from Chomsky, who is "the most cited living
author." (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky</a>)<br>
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Thanks, Brian. <br>
Spencer <br>
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On 5/7/2011 10:50 AM, Brian Good wrote:
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I never heard of Guernica Magazine, so I suppose there's some
slight chance<br>
it's a hoax. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/">http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/</a></p>
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It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned
assassination, multiply violating<br>
elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been
no attempt to <br>
<br>
apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done
by 80<br>
commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from
his wife, who<br>
lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for
law, suspects<br>
are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In
April 2002, the<br>
head of the <span class="caps">FBI,</span> Robert Mueller,
informed the press that after the most intensive <br>
<br>
investigation in history, the <span class="caps">FBI </span>could
say no more than that it “believed” that the<br>
plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the <span
class="caps">UAE </span>and Germany. What <br>
<br>
they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8
months earlier, when <br>
<br>
Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious,
we do not know, <br>
<br>
because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if
they were presented <br>
<br>
with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have.
Thus Obama was <br>
<br>
simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we
quickly learned that <br>
<br>
the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”<br>
<br>
Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of
bin Laden’s “confession,”<br>
but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston
Marathon. He boasted of <br>
<br>
what he regarded as a great achievement.<br>
<br>
There is also much media discussion of Washington’s anger that
Pakistan didn’t turn<br>
over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and
security forces were aware<br>
of his presence in Abbottabad. Less is said about Pakistani anger
that the <span class="caps">U.S. </span>invaded <br>
<br>
their territory to carry out a political assassination.
Anti-American fervor is already very <br>
<br>
high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it.
The decision to dump<br>
the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and
skepticism in much<br>
of the Muslim world.<br>
<br>
<br>
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos
landed at <br>
George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body
in the Atlantic.<br>
Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he
is not a “suspect” but<br>
uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the
“supreme <br>
international crime differing only from other war crimes in that
it contains within itself <br>
the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg
Tribunal) for which Nazi <br>
criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths,
millions of refugees,<br>
destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict
that has now <br>
spread to the rest of the region.<br>
<br>
There’s more to say about [Cuban airline bomber Orlando] Bosch,
who just died <br>
peacefully in Florida, including reference to the “Bush doctrine”
that societies that<br>
harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and
should be treated<br>
accordingly. No one seemed to notice that Bush was calling for
invasion and<br>
destruction of the <span class="caps">U.S. </span>and murder of
its criminal president.<br>
<br>
Same with the name, Operation Geronimo. The imperial mentality is
so profound, <br>
throughout western society, that no one can perceive that they are
glorifying bin<br>
Laden by identifying him with courageous resistance against
genocidal invaders.<br>
It’s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes:
Apache, <br>
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 <br>
<br>
should provide us with a good deal to think about.<br>
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Last fall Dr. Chomsky told Iranian TV that at the time of the
attack on Afghanistan,<br>
the US had no evidence that al Qaeda had done 9/11. There's a
good 5-minute <br>
<br>
video about that here:<br>
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mprzq1mA9Jk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mprzq1mA9Jk</a></p>
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