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I came across this article by chomsky on interactivist info exchange
it came from asia times feb 22 2004 and is the edited version of the afterword of _Hegemony and Survival_
here is the rest of it http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/10/11/1425200&mode=nested&tid=8
tympan tzu
"The Resort to Force"
Noam Chomsky
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said while explaining the National Security Strategy (NSS) of September 2002 to a hostile audience at the World Economic Forum that Washington has a "sovereign right to use force to defend ourselves" from nations that possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and cooperate with terrorists, the official pretexts for invading Iraq. The collapse of the pretexts is well known, but there has been insufficient attention to its most important consequence: the NSS was in effect revised to lower the bars to aggression. The need to establish ties to terror was quietly dropped. More significant, President George W Bush and colleagues declared the right to resort to force even if a country does not have WMD or even programs to develop them. It is sufficient that it have the "intent and ability" to do so.
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I came across this article by chomsky on interactivist info exchange
it came from asia times feb 22 2004 and is the edited version of the afterword of _Hegemony and Survival_
here is the rest of it http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/10/11/1425200&mode=nested&tid=8
tympan tzu
"The Resort to Force"
Noam Chomsky
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said while explaining the National Security Strategy (NSS) of September 2002 to a hostile audience at the World Economic Forum that Washington has a "sovereign right to use force to defend ourselves" from nations that possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and cooperate with terrorists, the official pretexts for invading Iraq. The collapse of the pretexts is well known, but there has been insufficient attention to its most important consequence: the NSS was in effect revised to lower the bars to aggression. The need to establish ties to terror was quietly dropped. More significant, President George W Bush and colleagues declared the right to resort to force even if a country does not have WMD or even programs to develop them. It is sufficient that it have the "intent and ability" to do so.
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Don't just Search. Find! http://search.sympatico.msn.ca/default.aspx The new MSN Search! Check it out!
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