... many, many things indicate soft on terrorism, including telling FBI not to investigate bin Ladens, failing to scramble F-16s, paying $43 million to the Taliban 4 months before 911, etc.
Bush Inc. is very comfortable with terrorism. You should have seen Bush Senior the day after 911 speaking before a petroleum association, relaxed and smiling as if there were no problems in the world.
Worse, further study makes it clear to people like Chomsky that several decades of militarized foreign policy have seen the classic definition of "terrorism" preferred by out-of-control spooks and military on many countries. The trick is to find out about it:
"The immediate problem is to free ourselves from the shackles imposed, very consciously, by the kind of people ... who don't want the facts to be known. And for very good reasons. Because if [Americans] know the facts they aren't going to tolerate them. So therefore you have to prevent them from knowing. You have to indoctrinate them, you have to tell them stories about how we're really good guys, and if we use violence, it must be for the general good because we represent the course of history.
"That's the job of propagandists, for power and violence, and it's the task of populations to free themselves from those kinds of controls and domination."
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