Global Islam & Terrorism - The Long Game (Opinion)

[Je suis Omar]

Gee, I wonder what that could be.

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Your appalling and shameful ignorance.

Noam Chomsky: The Long, Shameful History of American Terrorism

President Obama should call our countrys history of supporting insurgents abroad for what it is: U.S.-backed terrorism.

BY NOAM CHOMSKY

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In Cuba, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, President John F. Kennedy launched a murderous and destructive campaign to bring the terrors of the earth to Cubathe words of Kennedy's close associate, the historian Arthur Schlesinger, in his semiofficial biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility for the terrorist war.

The atrocities against Cuba were severe. The plans were for the terrorism to culminate in an uprising in October 1962, which would lead to a U.S. invasion. By now, scholarship recognizes that this was one reason why Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba, initiating a crisis that came perilously close to nuclear war. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara later conceded that if he had been a Cuban leader, he might have expected a U.S. invasion.

American terrorist attacks against Cuba continued for more than 30 years. The cost to Cubans was of course harsh. The accounts of the victims, hardly ever heard in the U.S., were reported in detail for the first time in a study by Canadian scholar Keith Bolender, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba, in 2010.

The toll of the long terrorist war was amplified by a crushing embargo, which continues even today in defiance of the world. On Oct. 28, the U.N., for the 23rd time, endorsed the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba. The vote was 188 to 2 (U.S., Israel), with three U.S. Pacific Island dependencies abstaining.

There is by now some opposition to the embargo in high places in the U.S., reports ABC News, because it is no longer useful (citing Hillary Clinton's new book Hard Choices). French scholar Salim Lamrani reviews the bitter costs to Cubans in his 2013 book The Economic War Against Cuba.

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http://inthesetimes.com/article/17311/noam_chomsky_the_worlds_greatest_terrorist_campaign

Edited May 14, 2015 by Je suis Omar

[jbg]

There is less chance of triggering these lone wolves if we stay out of these never-ending, useless military attacks that do not accomplish anything but to make weapons companies' stock prices to remain high. You always need an enemy or create an enemy to have wars.

So what you're saying is that we should craft policies to soothe the emotions of the crazed?

[marcus]

So what you're saying is that we should craft policies to soothe the emotions of the crazed?

No. That's what you're saying.

I am saying that we should have policies that don't destroy countries (Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya/Syria) which encourage terrorism. Similar to what Switzerland has in its foreign policy.

Unless you have stocks in weapons companies, I don't see why you would want these unnecessary wars that do not solve any problems.

Edited May 14, 2015 by marcus

[Shady]

I would say that the long term should be fairly positive if other religions are any indication.

[Argus]

No. That's what you're saying.

I am saying that we should have policies that don't destroy countries (Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya/Syria) which encourage terrorism.

But all those countries encouraged and supported terrorism in the first place. That's kind of a big reason why they drew the antipathy of the West.