9-11: Was There an Alternative? (Open Media Books)

9-11: Was There an Alternative? (Open Media Books)

Noam Chomsky

Language: English

Pages: 176

ISBN: 1609803434

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity that choked off American discourse in the months immediately following. Chomsky placed the attacks in context, marshaling his deep and nuanced knowledge of American foreign policy to trace the history of American political aggression--in the Middle East and throughout Latin America as well as in Indonesia, in Afghanistan, in India and Pakistan--at the same time warning against America’s increasing reliance on military rhetoric and violence in its response to the attacks, and making the critical point that the mainstream media and public intellectuals were failing to make: any escalation of violence as a response to violence will inevitably lead to further, and bloodier, attacks on innocents in America and around the world. This new edition of 9-11, published on the tenth anniversary of the attacks and featuring a new preface by Chomsky, reminds us that today, just as much as ten years ago, information and clarity remain our most valuable tools in the struggle to prevent future violence against the innocent, both at home and abroad.

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ridiculous, though comparison of the toll is perfectly reasonable and indeed standard in scholarship. The bombing also carried severe costs for the people of the United States, as became glaringly evident on September 11, or should have. It seems to me remarkable that this has not been brought up prominently (if at all), in the extensive discussion of intelligence failures that lie behind the 9-11 atrocities. Just before the 1998 missile strike, Sudan detained two men suspected of bombing the

there were efforts to understand the grievances that lie behind such crimes and to address the problems. At least, that is the course we follow if we have any concern for genuine justice and hope to reduce the likelihood of further atrocities rather than increase it. The same principles hold quite generally, with due attention to variation of circumstances. Specifically, they hold up in this case. What steps, in contrast, is the U.S. government seeking to undertake? What will be the results,

definitions of the term, as in the U.S. Code* or Army manuals. To do so would at once reveal that the U.S. is a leading terrorist state, as are its clients. Perhaps I may quote political scientist Michael Stohl: "We must recognize that by convention- and it must be emphasized only by convention-great power use and the threat of the use of force is normally described as coercive diplomacy and not as a form of terrorism," though it commonly involves "the threat and often the use of violence for

(Claremont, 1986, reprinted by Amaana, Black Rose, Pluto). Chomsky and E.S. Herman, Political Economy of Human Rights (South End Press, 1979). John Cooley, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (Pluto, 1999, 2001). Alex George, ed., Western State Terrorism (Polity-Blackwell, 1991). Herman, Real Terror Networks (South End Press, 1982). Herman and Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (Pantheon, 1998, 2001). Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, The 'Terrorism' Industry

another criminal court. Those are the measures the U.S. could pursue, and nobody's going to block it. That's what they're being asked to do by people throughout the region, including their allies. Remember, the governments in the Middle East and North Africa, like the terrorist Algerian government, which is one of the most vicious of all, would be happy to join the U.S. in opposing terrorist networks which are attacking them. They're the prime targets. But they have been asking for some

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