The Reagan administration concocted a new category: terrorist states. They declared a war on terror as soon as they entered office in the early 1980s, 1981. We have to defend ourselves from the plague of the modern age, return to barbarism, the evil scourge of terrorism, and so on, and particularly state-directed international terrorism. A few years later — Clinton devised the concept of rogue states. ’It’s 1994, we have to defend ourselves from rogue states.’ Then, later on came the failed states, which either threaten our security, like Iraq. Leading scholars, Samuel Huntington and others, observed that — in the major journals, Foreign Affairs — that in most of the world, much of the world, the United States is regarded as the leading rogue state and the greatest threat to their existence. The United States has become a leading rogue state. Surely, it’s a terrorist state under its own definition of international terrorism, not only carrying out violent terrorist acts and supporting them, but even radically violating the so-called Bush Doctrine, that a state that harbors terrorists is a terrorist state. Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism. There is a democratic deficit, that is, a substantial gap between public policy and public opinion. Noam Chomsky.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:35:42 +0000
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