NP? Chomsky v. Bennett

[Doug Millison]

May 30, 2002

CNN Debate on "Terrorism"
Chomsky v. Bennett

[CNN Transcript, May 30, 2002]

[...] ZAHN: Professor, let me jump in here, but implicit in that
-- aren't you saying that you understand why America was
targeted?

CHOMSKY: Do I understand? Yes, so does the U.S. intelligence
services, so does all of scholarship. I mean, we can ignore
it if we like, and therefore lead to further terrorist
attacks, or we can try to understand. What Mr. Bennett said
is about half true. The United States has done some very
good things in the world, and that does not change the fact
that the World Court was quite correct in condemning the
United States as an international terrorist state, nor do
the atrocities in Turkey in the last few years -- they are
not obviated by the fact that there are other good things
that happen. Sure. That's -- you are correct when you say
good things have happened, but if we are not total
hypocrites, in the sense of the gospels, we will pay
attention to our own crimes. For one reason, because that's
elementary morality -- elementary morality. For another
thing, because we mitigate them. [...]


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