Noam Chomsky in Iceland: Compares Nixon and Kissinger to bin Laden

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from the Iceland Review:



The renowned American linguist Noam Chomsky gave a lecture in Iceland on Friday September 9. Professor Chomsky began his lecture by saying that in two days we would remember September 11, a terrible crime that had been committed with cruelty.

“But it could have been worse”, he said according to mbl.is. He added that terrorists could have succeeded in blowing up the White House, kill the president and put in place a terrible military junta, which would have killed thousands of people and get a group of economists, the boys from Kandahar, to ruin peoples lives.

Chomsky continued that this sequence of events was not imagination. In reality, he said, this was an account of Latin America and an event that was often called the first 9/11, when Americans deposed Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973 and replaced him with General Augustos Pinochet. The ‘boys from Kandahar’ is a reference to the Chicago economists, including Milton Friedman, who gave advice to the military government of Pinochet.

Chomsky said that the US had unilaterally taken the right of a superpower to influence world events as the pleased. Their own behavior was subject to a different criterion than that of others. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Noam_Chomsky_in_Iceland_Compares_Nixon_and_Kissinger_to_bin_Laden_0_382043.news.aspx

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