Press TV
Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:14:45 GMT
The following is a Press TV interview with respected American author, political analyst and world-renowned linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky.
Press TV: Professor Chomsky, we better start with Pakistan. The White House not commenting on the killings of people [in cross-border drone attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan]. Richard Holbrooke, someone whom you’ve written about in the context of Yugoslavia, is the man [President Barack] Obama has chosen to solve the situation.
Chomsky: Well, it was pretty clear that Obama would accept the Bush doctrine that the United States can bomb Pakistan freely, and there have been many case which are quite serious.
There has been for example a great deal of chaos and fighting in Bajaur province, which is a adjacent to Afghanistan and tribal leaders- others there- have traced it to the bombing of a madrassa school which killed 80 to 95 people, which I don’t think was even reported in the United states, it was reported in the Pakistani press of course.
The author of the article reporting it, a well-known nuclear physicist, Pervez Hoodbhoy pointed out at the time that this kind of massacre will of course engender terror and reactions, which will even threaten the state of Pakistan. And that has been what is happening. We are now seeing more of it.
The first message of the Pakistani government to General [David] Petraeus, the American General when he took command of the region was that they did not want any more bombings in Pakistan.
Actually, the first message to the new Obama administration by President [Hamid] Karzai of Afghanistan was the same, that he wanted no more bombings. He also said that he wants a timetable for the withdrawal of the foreign troops, US and other troops, from Afghanistan. That was of course just ignored.
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The war machine was launched irrespective of who the commander-in-chief would be. We know that the same corporations who backed the Obama campaign also gave equal monies to John McCain. Previously, they fed the coffers of George Bush and John Kerry. The US has become a war nation, a bellicose juggernaut determined to conquer all who oppose its quest to control the world’s fossil fuel supplies and quash the rise of Islam. Nothing will change – the control of the mainstream press and public opinion will be instrumental in the US accomplishing its goal.
The propaganda machine peddles its inanities (really, Palestine is a threat to Israel? are you kidding?), creates its enemies (Iran and the bogus nuclear weapons program) and commits its murders (in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, etc.).
Obama made a speech on Al-Arabiya TV – the middle eastern equivalent of Fox News. He should have gone to Al-Jazeera; at least he’d have gained some credibility.
Hi Mary, yes, the US is a war nation.
See these videos posted on DS’s vodpod about how we have local economies totally dependent on the war making machine:
http://vodpod.com/watch/1315605-on-war-profit-and-loss-26-jan-09-part-1?pod=dandelionsalad
http://vodpod.com/watch/1315689-on-war-profit-and-loss-26-jan-09-part-2?pod=dandelionsalad
I didn’t post the interview because of what you stated about the TV network.
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