Noam Chomsky Quotes
The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of pretext. We can no longer use the Russians as an excuse, as we did in Central America in the 1980's, so drugs will have to do.
Chomsky, Noam. Year 501: The Conquest Continues. South End Press, 1993.
This is an astounding statement by a general officer and service commander. Many attempts were made to smear Butler and some conservatives do so to this day, however he was the only man in US history who has been awarded the Medal of Honor twice and his loyalty and patriotism is hard to question. However, Butler was a very outspoken officer and after he retired, he was a constant embarrassment and thorn in the sides of administrations of both parties.
This quotation is important because it was typical of the view of many Muslims in the world in the beginning of the 21st century. However. What most of these Muslims ignore is the fact that Islamic Nations have ben warring with each other since there have been Islamic nations. In addition, the different Muslim sects have been brutally trying to exterminating each other since the death of The Prophet and civil war broke out over his successor.
Despite a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other countries, America has frequently found a reason to make an exception to the policy and send troops to a foreign nation to shape the government in a direction to our liking. After WWII America also used covert operations to change regimes or destabilize governments perceived not in America’s interests. Sending troops to Western Hemisphere nations was continued as well but much less frequently than earlier.
The “help” was a covert CIA 1954 operation that overthrew the government
He does not completely blame the United States or the West but places a large part of the blame on the corrupt Pakistani governemnt and military which would not curtail the growing Jhadi menace becasue they wanted to use them as a weapn against India, which gained independence at that same time but has been much more successful and democratic.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
