Noam Chomsky Slams The US For Being the Greatest Terrorist State That Has Fostered Violence and Aggression

There is a new barb aimed at the United States by the erstwhile longtime MIT professor, critic, historian and social philosopher Noam Chomsky in a new op-ed. He calls the U.S. the "world's leading terrorist state," due to its dangerous CIA-run operations in countries such as Nicaragua and Cuba, according to RT News.

In TruthOut, Chomsky described the Central Intelligence Agency's classified review of its attempts to arm insurgencies across the world in its 67-year history. RT News reported that the CIA conducted the "effectiveness analyses" but the Obama government armed rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's Syrian forces.

When The New York Times revealed the facts, Chomsky said that the headline should have been as it was written in The Times: "It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it," instead of "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."

Calling the U.S. "the world champion in generating terror," he showed how it was bent on strengthening antagonism. He said that the first paragraph of the Times article spells out the three cities in which 'covert aid' had been given: Angola, Nicaragua and Cuba. They were all examples of major terrorist operations, he said.

"The question is, what can we do to make the right ones prevail?" he asks in an interview with David Barsamian at chomsky.info. Pointing out that the U.S. is the only country that has been condemned for international terrorism by the World Court, it refused to comply with a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law.

He added that in the 1980s, the U.S. supported Apartheid in South Africa even as it invaded Angola to defend itself from Nelson Mandela's African National Congress, which it called one of the world's "more notorious terrorist groups." However, Washington just combined with South Africa in order to give support for Jonas Savimbi's terrorist Unita army in Angola, said Chomsky. For this, the results were "horrendous." A 1989 U.N. inquiry realized that South Africa had caused 1.5 million deaths in nearby countries, apart from its own country.

Chomsky also referred to the decades-long "murderous and destructive campaign" that the US has directed at Cuba, including the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and a long-standing embargo even today. On Oct. 28, the UN, for the 23rd time, endorsed 'the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba,'" he wrote.

He also referred to the "dirty wars" the U.S. waged in Central America in the 1980s and current opposition in Syria and Iraq against Islamic State, a jihadist group, like others, which were fuelled by American interventions in the Middle East, he wrote.

Currently, President Barack Obama's unmanned drones are circling the skies over Pakistan and Yemen. This was just an extension of the terrorist generation that had happened earlier. Obama's global project of eliminating "terrorists" and the 'resentment-generating impact' would only perpetuate terrorism. "This is a record to be contemplated with some awe," he concludes.

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