acTVism Editorial Pick: Noam Chomsky's Classic Speech - The Two 9/11's
Noam Chomsky:
"It is useful to remember that [however] awful as the crimes were [of
9/11 in the US] they could have been a lot of worse. It is not hard to
imagine. So suppose for example that the
attack had gone as far as bombing the White House, killing the
president, imposing a brutal military dictatorship that killed thousands
of people, tortured tens of thousands while establishing an
international terrorist centre that helped impose similar torture and
terrorist states elsewhere, carried out an international assassination
campaign. And as an extra fill up brought in a team of economists, lets
call them the “Kandahar boys” [comparing them to the Chicago Boys] who
drove the economy into one of the worst depressions in US history. That
plainly would have been a lot worse than what happened on 9.11.2001.
Unfortunately it is not a thought experiment, it happened. The only
inaccuracy in this brief review is that the numbers should be multiplied
by 25. So 50,00 to 100,000 killed, 700,000 tortured to yield the per
capital equivalence which is the appropriate measure. Well I am
referring, of course, to what in Latin America is often called the first
9/11. The September 11th 1973, when the United States succeeded in its
intensive efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Salvador
Allende in Chile with a military coup that placed General Pinochet's
brutal regime in office."
acTVism Munich Editorial Pick: „Noam Chomsky’s Classic Speech – The Two 9/11’s“
