#61 January/February 2003
Terror, America, and Chomsky
by Rodger Herbst
On October 18, 2001, Noam Chomsky delivered one of the first post-9/11
lectures addressing the root cause of terrorism at the Technology & Culture
Forum at MIT. In his description of the adoption and refinement of Nazi
�counter-terrorism� methods, the new military concept of �low intensity
warfare,� American opposition to a major 1987 UN resolution condemning
terrorism, and the CIA�s programmatic training of thousands of terrorists,
he creates a compelling sketch of how systematic American intervention,
including the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in countries
around the world, could quite reasonably have resulted in the terrorist
attacks of 9/11. See
The New War Against Terror
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