On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Louis Proyect wrote: > >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.
But 9-11-2001 simply could not be "state terrorism"? Because the Bush adminstration has convinced you of the accuracy of its rendition of that history? Paul Z.
