Suppression of one's own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated.
Read more at: Chomsky: 9/11 - was there an alternative? - Opinion - Al Jazeera Englisht goes into great detail about other details about a world view of Bin Laden and the attacks, the CIA, precursor events that lead to 9/11 and so on. I thought Chomsky did a great job on this article showing the imperial mentality that followed not only before 9/11 but after. He did a great job of showing the first 9/11 and how the US imperialist plan decades before and now currently the US objectives after have really not changed.
Thank you for your having linked us to the Aljazeera story, TheDemSocialist. How do you do?
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Yes, the indirect yet very real connection between Chile's "911" and America's "911" is, to me, as striking as it is obvious. The laissez-faire-capitalist-inspired and US government-sponsored military coup (09.11.'73) that saw to the assassination of the democratically elected President Salvador was the initial salvo in a desperate, violent and worldwide grab for raw materials and markets; one that has now taken hold of Iraq. (So too did the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup see to the overthrow of Allende's Popular Unity government and to the systematic murders of several thousand Chileans, including the wonderful singer-songwriter Victor Jara, and the Nobel Laureate poet Pablo Neruda, not to mention two Americans; Charles Horman, and Frank Teruggi.)
TheDemSocialist quoted Noam Chomsky as having written: "The senior CIA analyst responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden since 1996, Michael Schruer, wrote shortly after that [the killing of bin Laden] 'bin laden [had] been precise in telling America the reasons he is waging war on us. [He was] out to drastically alter US and Western policies toward the Islamic world,' and largely succeeded; 'US forces and policies are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world, something Osama bin Laden [had] been trying to do with substantial but incomplete success since the early 1990s."
While I agree that US government policy is "completing the radicalization of the Islamic world," I do not agree that bin Laden and his followers "largely succeeded" in "drastically alter[ing] US and Western policies toward the Islamic world."
Consider that, in or around 2004, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and others began to tell the world of the US government's plan to turn much, if not all, of the Islamic world into the world's next free trade zone by way of yet more NAFTA-like legislation ("IFTA," if you will). And, although the US government has yet to bother itself with such legislation, the sale of Iraq to American and other Western capitalists has been in full swing since 2004.
Indeed, all of Iraq's publicly-owned industries; its electrical-generating system, its telecommunication system, its educational system, its roads, airports, jails, prisons, water, waterways and anything else that can be turned into a commodity and then sold for profit has been or is in the process of being sold to the likes of Haliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg-Brown and Root, Bechtel, Dyncorp, MCI WorldCom, Skylink Air...USA, Wackenhut, the Perini Corporation, and many others. Moreover, all of this began to unfold even before the establishment of Iraq's coalition government, which is to say without the consent of the Iraqi people. (This is not to suggest that Iraq's coalition government has ever represented the Iraqi people, for it simply has not.)
The auctioning off of Iraq has been a dream come true for the late Milton Friedman and his disciples, such as Donald Rumsfeld; a dream that began to take root in Chile on September 11, 1973, and which eventually spread to Argentina, Bolivia, Russia, Iraq and even New Orleans, Louisiana.
Consider, too, that the US government has constructed no fewer than thirteen very large, very permanent military bases within Iraq since 2003. These are military bases that, in conjunction with the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) as well as with US bases within still other middle-eastern countries, could and likely will be used to deter any and all Islamic nations who may choose to resist the development of an Islamic "free trade" zone.
Therefore, with all respect due Noam Chomsky, I am not of the belief that Osama bin Laden altered US government policy and that of other Western powers whatsoever. In fact, it is my belief, though I hope to be mistaken, that the deleterious and thus dangerous policies of the US and other Western nations toward the Islamic World is growing more resolute with each passing day. After all, they really don't have much of a choice.
With capitalism now on its final stage - its global stage, the rush to acquire markets, raw materials and inexpensive/easily-exploitable labor power is like never before. It is the reason why globalized capital has begun to abandon the practice of
asking[B/] non-compliant governments for their nation's natural riches because it knows the answer to be - No. So it has begun to simply take what it wants in the wake of military shock and awe "battles" from Chile to Iraq and beyond.
Good evening.
Persevere.
Guy
