Chomsky: U.S. conducts ‘the most awesome international terrorist campaign ever’
GENEVA – “U.S. policy is designed in a way to increase terror,” said U.S. academician, philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky last weekend at the Swiss Press Club in Geneva.
During a press conference, Chomsky covered subjects like the terror campaign conducted by the United States, the Snowden case and the hypocrisy of the North American country regarding the issue of extradition.
[Former National Security Agency contractor Edward] “Snowden should be honored. He was doing what every citizen ought to do,” said Chomsky at the start of the session. He was applauded by the audience.
According to Chomsky, U.S. policy is designed in such a way that it will increase terror among the population.
“The U.S. is carrying out the most awesome international terrorist campaign ever […] with drones and special forces,” he said.
According to the linguist, it is “a major terrorist campaign” worldwide “that is generating terrorists.”
“The drone campaign is creating potential terrorists” because the citizens of the regions subjected to Obama’s terror campaign live in terror thinking that sooner or later they could be victims of an attack by drones, and that could potentially make them react, Chomsky said.
In Chomsky’s opinion, it is absolutely amazing that the United States conducts, on one hand, a campaign of mass terror that can generate potential terrorists against the U.S., while on the other hand proclaims that it is absolutely necessary to carry out mass surveillance to protect against terrorism.
U.S. is a leader in denying extraditions
During his appearance, Chomsky dealt with the issue of extradition.
“The U.S. has just announced again that they’re going to punish anybody who refuses to extradite Snowden. At the same time the U.S. is one of the leaders in refusing extradition,” he said.
The academician also mentioned the forcible rerouting of the plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales on July 2 over Europe, as he returned from an official trip to Russia.
“The U.S. imposed pressure to try to block the Bolivian [president’s] plane because they want Snowden extradited,” he said. Nevertheless, Chomsky pointed out, that Latin American country has tried for years to get Washington to extradite a former Bolivian president [Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada] who was accused in his homeland of all kinds of crimes, but the Americans refuse to extradite him.
According to Chomsky, there are numerous similar cases. One of the most remarkable, in his opinion, is that of Luis Posada Carriles, accused by Venezuela of participating in the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, and by Cuba of participating in the bombing of hotels in Havana and Varadero in the late 1990s. One Italian tourist was killed by one of the explosions.
Posada “is sitting happily in Miami and his colleague, Orlando Bosch, also a major terrorist until he died, was also happily there,” Chomsky said.
(This article appeared in Russia Today)
Editor’s Note: Orlando Bosch died in Miami in April 2011. At the time, he was free, having been pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.
