"Blowback"

[David Morris]

The "truth" in this context was the Op-Ed piece I sandwiched between the 
author's argument against the statement that 'This is civilization's fight.'

Chalmers Johnson:   "On the day of the disaster, President George W. Bush 
told the American people that we were attacked because we are 'a beacon for 
freedom' and because the attackers were 'evil.' In his address to Congress 
on  September 20, he said, 'This is civilization's fight.' "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50491-2001Sep30.html
By Boris Nemtsov
Monday, October 1, 2001;
MOSCOW -- The Russian people recognized instantly that the tragedies of 
Sept. 11 were attacks on the fabric of the whole civilized world. As we 
watched on television, no country could avoid imagining the same types of 
attacks happening in their homeland.

Chalmers Johnson:   "This attempt to define difficult-to-grasp events as 
only a conflict over abstract  values--as a 'clash of civilizations,' in 
current post-cold war American jargon--is not only disingenuous but also a 
way of evading responsibility for the 'blowback' that America's imperial 
projects have generated."


>From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
> >
> >  I counter that the reverse is true.  The author's desire to skewer 
>"American Imperialism" leads him to ignore, actually to argue against, the 
>most obvious truths.
>
>What kind of "truths"? Tell me, please...


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp