: “Obama Is Running The Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists”
Leading liberal Noam Chomsky
said yesterday:
The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, it’s doing it all over the world.
Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history: the drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it [...] All of these operations, they are terror operations.
***
People hate the country that’s just terrorizing them. That’s not a surprise. Just consider the way we react to acts of terror. That’s the way other people react to [American] acts of terror.
Chomsky is right. Experts agrees that indiscriminate drone strikes are
war crimes (more
here and
here).
The U.S. is not only killing people whose
identity it doesn’t even know (
more), but it is also
killing children. And it is using the justifiably-vilified Al Qaeda tactic of
killing people attending funerals of those killed – and targeting people attempting to rescue people who have been injured by – ourprevious strikes.
Chomsky has previously extensively documented U.S. terrorism. As Wikipedia
notes:
Chomsky and Herman observed that terror was concentrated in the U.S. sphere of influence in the Third World, and documented terror carried out by U.S. client states in Latin America. They observed that of ten Latin American countries that had death squads,
all were U.S. client states.
***
They concluded that
the global rise in state terror was a result of U.S. foreign policy.
***
In 1991, a book edited by Alexander L. George [the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University] also argued that other Western powers sponsored terror in Third World countries. It concluded that
the U.S. and its allies were the main supporters of terrorism throughout the world.
Indeed, the U.S. has
created death squads in Latin America, Iraq and Syria.
The
director of the National Security Agency under
Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom -
noted:
Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today’s war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.
Odom also
said:
By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.
(audio
here).
The Washington Post
reported in 2010:
The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism,
according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web site WikiLeaks.
The head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office
said that most terror attacks are committed by our CIA and FBI.
Some in the American military have intentionally tried to
“out-terrorize the terrorists”.
As Truthout
notes:
Both [specialists Ethan McCord and Josh Stieber] say they saw their mission as a plan to “
out-terrorize the terrorists,” in order to make the general populace more afraid of the Americans than they were of insurgent groups.
In the interview with [Scott] Horton, Horton pressed Stieber:
“… a fellow veteran of yours from the same battalion has said that you guys had a standard operating procedure, SOP, that said – and I guess this is a reaction to some EFP attacks on y’all’s Humvees and stuff that killed some guys – that from now on if a roadside bomb goes off, IED goes off, everyone who survives the attack get out and fire in all directions at anybody who happens to be nearby … that this was actually an order from above. Is that correct? Can you, you know, verify that?
Stieber answered:
“Yeah, it was an order that came from Kauzlarich himself, and it had the philosophy that, you know, as Finkel does describe in the book, that we were under pretty constant threat, and what he leaves out is the response to that threat. But the philosophy was that if each time one of these roadside bombs went off where you don’t know who set it … the way we were told to respond was to open fire on anyone in the area, with the philosophy that that would intimidate them, to be proactive in stopping people from making these bombs …”
Terrorism is
defined as:
The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
So McCord and Stieber are correct: this constitutes terrorism by American forces in Iraq.
The U.S. has been
directly supporting Al Qaeda and other terrorists and providing them arms, money and logistical support in
Syria,
Libya, Mali,
Bosnia,
Chechnya,
Iran, and
many other countries… both
before and
after 9/11. And see
this.
Torture – which the U.S. has
liberally used during the last 10 years – has long been recognized as a
form of terrorism.
Wikipedia
notes:
Worldwide, 74% of countries that used torture on an administrative basis were U.S. client states, receiving military and other support to retain power.
Some Specific Examples …
The CIA
admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.
The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the
former head of Italian counterintelligenceadmit that
NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
“You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see
this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred).
► 41:04► 41:04
► 83:44► 83:44
► 13:46► 13:46
