Posted by OrwellianUK
on November 4, 2009, 11:48 pm, in reply to "Noam Chomsky on Hardtalk - for those outside UK who cannot use BBCiplayer"
Even the full interview seemed to be very heavily edited in a desperate attempt to make the interviewer look better.
It seems the BBC found the most hopelessly Western Ideology indoctrinated hack they could find. He did his best several times to stop Chomsky speaking so he wouldn't have to hear his own world view challenged.
The discomfiture on the faces of these people is always telling.
I have to make a point though, and that is that "capturing Osama Bin Laden" was merely the *stated* reason for invading Afghanistan, not the actual reason. It's well documented that the invasion was planned well in advance - how did they know they were going to have to capture OBL? (not that they made any real attempt to - the opposite in fact).
There is the infamous quote from a US 'diplomat' during the failed negotiations for the pipeline deal: "either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold or we bury you under a carpet of bombs".
Even if we accept the conventional explanation for 9/11, it is self evident that the invasion was part of the same Resource/Hegemony War which was later extended to the theatre of Iraq, and which may be extended still further to Iran, even as it is being widened into Pakistan.
These are the real reasons.
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