Chloe Duckworth’s Reviews > What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World > Status Update

“today the word guilty means targeted for assasination by Obama and the word innocent means not yet accorded that status”

“insurgent math: for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies”

it’s so sad to read a passage from a decade ago inquiring if the US would finally threaten to withhold support to Israel if they start bombing Iran or threaten nuclear war…as an observer from the future I’m sorry to say we failed.

LOL @ “america is a one-party state, the business party, with two factions: democrats and republicans”

the belief that america is exceptional is necessary to believe we deserve the right to intervene, but not sufficient to suggest intervention. isolationism routed in america first is also an option, and a popular one at that.

Find it interesting that chomsky portrays the american international relationship divide as between american isolationism vs exceptionalism rather than isolationism vs interventionalism. especially in the quotes he picked, I find this to be erroneous.

“The best way to prevent future attacks is to not incite them”

Speaks about the Boston Marathon bombers being radicalized with an entire generation of civilians in places like Yemen where the US bombed civilians indiscriminately. Says these attacks could do in one moment what generations of Jihadists failed to do to radicalize the civilians, because they saw the lengths that the US would go to harm their innocent communities.

The CIA infiltrated a polio vaccination clinic to find Osama Bin Laden, leading to a full generation of people not getting vaccinated for Polio out of fear of being murdered by the American government at these clinics. Much like Tuskagee!