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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:20:47 -0800
From: Richard Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [911nomorevictims] Is the US responsible for more terrorism than any
other country in the world?
Excerpts from: www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/chomsky.html
According to the New York Times there are 7 to 8 million people in
Afghanistan who are on the verge of starvation. That was true actually
before September 11th. They were surviving on international aid. On
September 16th, the Times reported that the United States demanded from
Pakistan the elimination of truck convoys that provide much of the food
and other supplies to Afghanistan's civilian population. Then US planes
repeated bombed Red Cross storage facilities, destroying a great many
tons of stored food.
The threat of military strikes, after the events of 9/11, forced the
removal of international aid workers, which in turn crippled the
assistance programs. "The country was on a lifeline and we just cut the
line," according to an evacuated aid worker, quoted in the New York
Times Magazine.
After the first week of bombing, the New York Times reported, on a back
page inside a column on something else, that there will soon be 7.5
million Afghans in acute need of even a loaf of bread, and there are
only a few weeks left before the harsh winter will make deliveries to
many areas totally impossible. Which tells us that Western civilization
is anticipating the forced starvation of 3-4 million people
On the same day, the leader of Western civilization dismissed with
contempt, once again, offers of negotiation for delivery of the alleged
target, Osama bin Laden, and a request for some evidence to substantiate
the demand for total capitulation. The offer was simply dismissed. On
the same day the Special Rapporteur of the UN in charge of food pleaded
with the United States to stop the bombing to try to save millions of
victims. As far as I'm aware that was unreported.
Plans are being made and programs implemented on the assumption that
they may very well lead to the death of several million people in the
next few weeks. This is being planned and anticipated very casually,
with no comment and no discussion by the mainstream media.
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But is such behavior really inconsistent for the US? Remember, over a
span of 200 years, the United States expelled or mostly exterminated the
indigenous population, many millions of people. We conquered half of
Mexico, carried out depredations all over the region, the Caribbean and
Central America, sometimes beyond, conquered Hawaii and the Philippines,
killing several hundred thousand Filipinos in the process. Since the
Second World War, the US has extended its reach around the world. But
except for our extermination of the indigenous population, the fighting
was always somewhere else; it was always others who were getting
slaughtered, not us.
The Reagan-US war against Nicaragua left tens of thousands of people
dead and the country ruined, perhaps beyond recovery. Nicaragua did
respond. But they didn't respond by setting off bombs in Washington.
They responded by taking it to the World Court, presenting a case, and
they certainly had no problem putting together the evidence. The World
Court accepted their case, ruled in their favor, and condemned what they
called the "unlawful use of force"(which is another word for
international terrorism) by the United States, and ordered the United
States to terminate the crime and pay massive reparations. The United
States, of course, dismissed the court judgment with total contempt, and
then announced that it would not accept the jurisdiction of the court
henceforth.
Nicaragua then went to the UN Security Council, which considered a
resolution calling on all states to observe international law. No one
was mentioned but everyone understood. The United States vetoed the
resolution. THE U.S. NOW STANDS AS THE ONLY STATE ON RECORD WHICH HAS
BOTH BEEN CONDEMNED BY THE WORLD COURT FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM _and_
has vetoed a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe
international law.
Nicaragua then went to the General Assembly where there is technically
no veto -- but a negative US vote amounts to a veto. It passed a
similar resolution with only the United States, Israel, and El Salvador
opposed. The following year again, this time the United States could
only rally Israel to the cause, so two votes were opposed to observing
international law. At that point, Nicaragua couldn't do anything
lawful. It tried all lawful measures. But they don't work in a world
that is ruled by force.
When Nicaragua finally succumbed to superpower assault, commentators
openly and cheerfully lauded the success of the methods that were
adopted and described them accurately. So I'll quote Time Magazine just
to pick one. They lauded the success of the methods adopted: "to wreck
the economy and prosecute a long and deadly proxy war until the
exhausted natives overthrow the unwanted government themselves," with a
cost to us that is "minimal," and leaving the victims "with wrecked
bridges, sabotaged power stations, and ruined farms," and thus providing
the US candidate with a "winning issue": "ending the impoverishment of
the people of Nicaragua." The New York Times had a headline saying
"Americans United in Joy" at this outcome.
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One illuminating aspect of our own attitude toward terrorism is the
reaction to the "outrageous" idea that Nicaragua might have the right to
defend itself. Actually I went through this in some detail with
database searches and that sort of thing. There is virtually nothing in
mainstream commentary indicating that Nicaragua might have that right.
And that fact was exploited by the Reagan administration and its
propaganda in an interesting way. Those of you who were around in that
time will remember that they periodically floated rumors that the
Nicaraguans were getting MIG jet fighters from Russia. And at that
point the hawks and the doves split. The hawks said, 'ok, let's bomb
'em.' The doves said, `wait a minute, let's see if the rumors are
true. And if the rumors are true, then let's bomb them. Because they
are a threat to the United States.'
Why, incidentally were they getting MIGs. Well they tried to get jet
planes from European countries but the United States put pressure on its
allies so that it wouldn't send them means of defense because they
wanted them to turn to the Russians. That's good for propaganda
purposes. Then they become a threat to us. Remember, they were just
two days march from Harlingen, Texas. We actually declared a national
emergency in 1985 to protect the country from the threat of Nicaragua.
And it stayed in force. So it was much better for them to get arms from
the Russians.
Why would they want jet planes? Well, for the reasons I already
mentioned. The United States had total control over their airspace, was
over flying it and using that to provide instructions to the terrorist
army to enable them to attack soft targets without running into the army
that might defend them. Everyone knew that that was the reason. They
are not going to use their jet planes for anything else. But the idea
that Nicaragua should be permitted to defend its airspace against a
superpower attack that is directing terrorist forces to attack
undefended civilian targets, that was considered in the United States as
outrageous and uniformly so. Exceptions were slight.
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US-backed terror was happening elsewhere in the world too -- Africa for
instance. During the Reagan years alone, South African attacks, backed
by the United States and Britain, against the South Africa's neighboring
countries, killed about a million and a half people and left $60 billion
in damage, leaving these countries utterly destroyed. And if we go
around the world, we can add more examples.
I mentioned that Nicaragua has now become the second-poorest country in
the hemisphere. But what's the poorest country? Well that is of course
Haiti, which also happens to be the primary victim of US intervention in
the 20th century. We left Haiti totally devastated. That's why it's
the poorest country. Nicaragua is second-ranked in degree of US
intervention in the 20th century. And it is the 2nd poorest. Actually,
it is vying with Guatemala. They interchange every year or two as to
who's the second poorest. And they are also about tied for who is the
leading target of US military intervention. American voters are
supposed to think that all of this is some sort of accident -- that it
has nothing to do with anything that happened in history.
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Why was Turkey getting such a huge flow of US arms? Well if you take a
look, over time, at the flow of US arms to Turkey, you'll notice that
Turkey has always received a lot of US arms. Why? Because the country
is strategically placed, a member of NATO, and so on. But notice that
arms flow to Turkey went up very sharply in 1984. It didn't have
anything to do with the cold war -- Russia was collapsing. And it
stayed high from 1984 to 1999 when it tapered off as principal recipient
and was replaced by Colombia.
But what happened from 1984 to 1999 during the time it was the leading
recipient? Well, in 1984, [Turkey] launched a major terrorist war
against Kurds in southeastern Turkey. And that's when US military aid
peaked. And we're not talking about pistols. We're talking about jet
planes, tanks, military training, and so on. This kind of military aid
stayed high as the atrocities escalated through the 1990's. Aid
followed it. The peak year was 1997. In 1997, US military aid to
Turkey was more than in the entire period 1950 to 1983, the cold war
period -- which is an indication of how much the cold war has affected
policy. And the results were awesome -- 2-3 million refugees, with some
of the worst ethnic cleansing of the late 1990's. Tens of thousands of
people killed, 3500 towns and villages destroyed, way more than Kosovo,
even under NATO bombs. And the United States was providing 80% of the
arms, increasing the supply as the atrocities increased, peaking in
1997. It declined in 1999 because, once again, terror worked as it
usually does when carried out by its major agents, i.e. the powerful.
So by 1999, Turkish terror, labeled "counter-terror," did its job. Then
primary arms recipient Turkey was replaced by Colombia, which had not
yet succeeded in its US-supplied terrorist war.
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