Noam Chomsky | The Sledgehammer Worldview

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Noam Chomsky | The Sledgehammer Worldview

Monday, 07 July 2014 00:00
By Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed


The front page of The New York Times on June 26 featured a photo of women mourning a murdered Iraqi.

He is one of the innumerable victims of the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) campaign in which the Iraqi army, armed and trained by the U.S. for many years, quickly melted away, abandoning much of Iraq to a few thousand militants, hardly a new experience in imperial history.

Right above the picture is the newspaper's famous motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print."

There is a crucial omission. The front page should display the words of the Nuremberg judgment of prominent Nazis - words that must be repeated until they penetrate general consciousness: Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/24796-noam-chomsky-the-sledgehammer-worldview

[Fred Sanders]

1. Chomsky speaks the truth, America will of course shut its ears in horror.

America will never accept that the current situation is entirely its fault, imperialism demands that it always be holier than thou , never ever wrong.


"The aggressors destroyed "Iraqi national identity and replaced it with sectarian and ethnic identities," beginning immediately when the U.S. imposed a Governing Council based on sectarian identity, a novelty for Iraq."

Keeping the Middle East always on the boil and fractured and divided serves whose interests?