Noam
Chomsky: Obama Is ‘Running Biggest Terrorist Operation That
Exists’
By Andrew Kirell
By Andrew Kirell
Continuing
his streak of
fiercely criticizing President Obama’s
foreign policy and civil liberties record, pre-eminent left-wing
scholar Noam Chomsky told GRITtv that this
administration is “dedicated to increasing terrorism” throughout
the world via its own “terrorist” drone strikes in foreign
lands.
Speaking
with GRITtv host Laura Flanders about the
National Security Agency snooping scandal, Chomsky remarked that
“the Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism;
it’s doing it all over the world.”
He
continued: “Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation
that exists, maybe in history: the drone assassination
campaigns, which are just part of it [...] All of these
operations, they are terror operations.” Drone strikes are
“terror” because, Chomsky said, the attacks have the effect of
“terrorizing” locals.”
“You are
generating more terrorist operations,” Chomsky pointedly said.
“People have a reaction” when they lose a loved one to an
American drone strike, he added. “They don’t say, ‘Fine, I don’t
care if my cousin was murdered.’ They become what we call
terrorists. This is completely understood from the highest
level.”
He
recalled the recent congressional testimony of a
Yemeni man named Farea al-Muslimi, who
described how a single drone strike managed to “radicalize” his
entire village against the United States.
“People
hate the country that’s just terrorizing them,” Chomsky
concluded. That’s not a surprise. Just consider the way we react
to acts of terror. That’s the way other people react to acts of
terror.”
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