[Peace-discuss] Re: solution to a non-problem (fwd)

[C. G. Estabrook]

[It's undeniable that US foreign policy follows the interests of an
American economic elite, interests inimical to those of the rest of the
world, including the large majority of the US population.  But I think
we're in danger of slighting that point if we assume that that policy is
primarily the result of the machinations of a little group of wilful men.
Here's Noam Chomsky's response to a question on this point, from a
discussion at Berkeley in March.  --CGE]


Q: What's your opinion on the U.S. government knowing about the September
11th attack but letting it occur in order to have justification for an
already planned war in Afghanistan?

CHOMSKY: It's a common view, and I've read it, over the internet, many
times. I think it's extremely implausible.  Unless some really serious
credible evidence is produced, personally I wouldn't take it very
seriously, and I haven't seen any such evidence.  It's very unlikely.  
It's not the kind of thing that happens.  I can't think of anything
remotely like it in history -- maybe the Reichstag fire.  But it would be
an extremely rare and implausible event, and there'd have been no reason
to do it.  It would have been crazy, in my opinion.

If you think it's worth investigating, go ahead and investigate it, but
personally, I don't think it's credible or even, in my view, at least,
even serious enough to investigate.

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   has ever been their willingness to kill 
   in defense of their power and privileges. 
   Let their power be once attacked 
   either by foreign foes or by domestic revolutionaries, 
   and at once we see the rulers prepared to kill and kill and kill. 
   The readiness of the ruling class to order killing, 
   the small value the ruling class has ever set upon human life, 
   is in marked contrast to the reluctance of all revolutionaries 
   to shed blood."  --James Connolly
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