Chomsky: Obama's Claim of U.S. as "Anchor of Global Security" Ignores Record of Illegal Wars, Coups
September 11, 2013
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as posted by the channelMIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the worldrenowned political dissident and linguist, challenges President Obama's rendering of U.S. foreign policy in his national address on Syria Tuesday night. "[Obama] said that for seven decades the United States has been the 'anchor of global security.' Really? Seven decades?" Chomsky asks. "That includes, for example, just 40 years ago today when the United States played a major role in overthrowing the parliamentary democracy of Chile and imposing a brutal dictatorship called the first 9/11 in Latin America. ... That a Harvard Law School graduate can pronounce those words is pretty amazing, as is the fact that they're accepted without comment. What he said is, I'm going to lie like a trooper about history. I'm going to suppress the actual U.S. role for the last seven decades. I'm going to maintain the threat of force, which is of course illegal, and I'm going to ensure that the chemical weapons convention is not imposed on the region because our ally, Israel, would be subjected to it."
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