Noam Chomsky: The Middle East Is on Fire, Thanks to U.S.

[polly7]

The scholar speaks about America's past foreign policy blunders and the failures of the mainstream media.

By Dan Falcone and Saul Isaacson / Jacobin May 11, 2015

If you take a look after the nuclear agreement, immediately there's a lot of commentary. The New York Times had a front page, a think piece, from one of their big thinkers, Peter Baker. It says basically in agreement, you can't trust Iran. You know, they destabilize the Middle East, and then he gives a list of reasons - each of them very interesting. But the most interesting is that one of the main crimes of Iran is that they were supporting militias that killed American soldiers.

In other words when we invade and destroy another country, that's stabilizing, and if someone defends themselves that is destabilizing. That shows up in popular culture like this horrible film American Sniper. Take a look at it. The memoir is worse than the film, but it comes out that the first kill, the one he's really proud of, is a woman and a child who are holding a grenade when their town is being attacked by American marines.

And they are savages, monsters, we hate them, they have to be murdered, and everybody's applauding. I mean, even the New York Times arts pages was talking about what a wonderful film it was. It's just mind-boggling.

Full article: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/noam-chomsky-we-caused-chaos-middle-east?akid=13094.44541.DM2tTU&rd=1&src=newsletter1036189&t=3

Please note, I do not discount Canada's participation in any of this. We're just as much to blame in many cases.

[RobertEarl]

1. Read something interesting the other day

Article claimed that Israel had nuke missiles capable of reaching the US and they are using that as leverage.

[randys1]

2. Have not and will not watch American Sniper, did not know the prick was proud of killing

Women and children defending themselves.

ME is a complete and total mess and George W Bush is 65% to blame and all american policies prior to him are 30% to blame and Obama can take 5% for drones.

We are the enemy, there.

We are the evil empire as in "The Empire Strikes Back", do WE not GET that?

wake up

[Jefferson23]

3. +1. n/t