Noam Chomsky: "It's Imperialism, Stupid"

[dbeach]

'Song remains the Same"....."human survival is not particularly significant in comparison with short-term power and wealth. And that is nothing new. "


http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20050704.htm

It's Imperialism, Stupid
Noam Chomsky
Khaleej Times, July 4, 2005
In his June 28 speech, President Bush asserted that the invasion of Iraq was undertaken as part of "a global war against terror" that the United States is waging. In reality, as anticipated, the invasion increased the threat of terror, perhaps significantly.
Half-truths, misinformation and hidden agendas have characterised official pronouncements about US war motives in Iraq from the very beginning. The recent revelations about the rush to war in Iraq stand out all the more starkly amid the chaos that ravages the country and threatens the region and indeed the world.


Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the more astute of the senior planners and analysts, pointed out in the journal National Interest that America's control over the Middle East "gives it indirect but politically critical leverage on the European and Asian economies that are also dependent on energy exports from the region." If the United States can maintain its control over Iraq, with the world's second largest known oil reserves, and right at the heart of the world's major energy supplies, that will enhance significantly its strategic power and influence over its major rivals in the tripolar world that has been taking shape for the past 30 years: US-dominated North America, Europe, and Northeast Asia, linked to South and Southeast Asia economies.

It is a rational calculation, on the assumption that human survival is not particularly significant in comparison with short-term power and wealth. And that is nothing new. These themes resonate through history. The difference today in this age of nuclear weapons is only that the stakes are enormously higher."

[K-W]

1. You know what absolutely amazes me reading that.

Its so nice that we have progressive voices on the radio and progressive websites and journalists and not just people like Noam Chomsky lost in the wilderness. Its not much, but its progress. And we still have a long way to go before we reconnect liberalism to its roots on the left.

[dbeach]

2. when the liberals alllowed the repukes to demonize the word liberal

it really crippled the dems..they NEVER got over the rise of hate politics uunder newter gingrich

those hate types like phil gramm..dick armey..livingston..others paved the way for the bushevik/neo-con regime..

I often wonder if its been all connected???