On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Louis Proyect wrote:
> ... It diverts energy and time from
> more profitable research based on established facts. It is a fact that US
> imperialism maintains military bases in oil-producing Moslem countries run
> by dictatorships. It is a fact that secular revolutionary thought and
> activism went into a steep decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
> It is a fact that political Islam embraces terrorism.
But political U.S. does not?
Not in the sense of suicide bombers. We use state terrorism, as Chomsky
calls it.
The U.S. did not fire bomb/nuke virtually every Japanese city except
Kyoto?
State terrorism.
Try closer to home and wonder about the t-shirt I saw at native American
reservations south of Buffalo: "We've fought terrorism for 500 years"
(approx. recall).
Paul Z.
State terrorism.
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