I laugh at their infatuation with the term "Blowback," makes them feel all cool and sophisticated, like they know some "inside" knowledge, which is pretty common jargon even a civilian like me knows. What a crew of hypocrites--if I honestly felt about this country as they claim to, I'd be typing this in some other country.
Let me call for his head right now.
And Bill Johnson, the author of this piece, seems to think he's just peachy.
Hey, that's me they're talking about!
""The suicidal assassins of Sept. 11, 2001, did not 'attack America,' as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy."
I would argue the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor about our "foriegn policy."
War is war. When in one, fight to win. Only after victory, does talk by professors need any attention.
So, basically, the author defends an a$$hole like Churchill with another a$$hole named Johnson. Kinda like saying Stalin was an OK guy because Pol Pot liked him.
Chalmers Johnson - Berkeley Professor
"...In no way was he saying children, police officers and firefighters deserved to die. Instead, he is saying they were the enemy's "collateral damage..."
The 'enemy' sure didn't think so. They tried to kill as many as possible.
Same nonsense, different day. The article implies that American foreign policy is evil. And why is American foreign policy evil. Because America is a Western, capitalist nation. We don't understand and appreciate other cultures.
The September 11th attack was a case of cold-blooded killing, and was intended to be. It was an attack on Americans, on American soil, by foreigners who despise us. And no amount of rationalization is going to get around that fact. I wish our "enlightened" progressives would stop blaming other people's actions on America.
America's indiscriminately lethal arrogance and psychotic sense of self-entitlement have long since given the great majority of the world's peoples ample cause to be at war with it
The problem is that vengeance is usually framed in terms of "getting even," a concept which is plainly inapplicable in this instance. As the above data indicate, it would require another 49,996 detonations killing 495,000 more Americans, for the "terrorists" to "break even" for the bombing of Baghdad/extermination of Iraqi children alone. And that's to achieve "real number" parity. To attain an actual proportional parity of damage – the US is about 15 times as large as Iraq in terms of population, even more in terms of territory – they would, at a minimum, have to blow up about 300,000 more buildings and kill something on the order of 7.5 million people.....Were this the intent of those who've entered the US to wage war against it, it would remain no less true that America and Americans were only receiving the bill for what they'd already done.
This idiot uses ward "phoney indian" churchill to make some other anti-American scumbag from The Nation look good. It didn't work.
yeahtedatedateda!
i lived in san diego and read chalmers johnson's spiel for years.
burp.
This whole "American foriegn policy" angle is sheer stupidity. Anyone that espews this ilk should have thier head examined. Tell this to the bastards that killed the children in Russia. Wake up you stupid A-Hole!
These people are really, really unhinged.