Noam Chomsky on U.S. Policy Towards Iran

Noam Chomsky on U.S. Policy Towards Iran
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Are assumptions about Iran wrong?

"Well, if I can make a comment about the stated reasons, the very fact that we're discussing them tells us a lot about the sort of intellectual culture and moral culture in the United States. I mean, suppose it was true that Iran is helping insurgents in Iraq. I mean, wasn’t the United States helping insurgents when the Russians invaded Afghanistan? Did we think there was anything wrong with that? I mean, Iraq's a country that was invaded and is under military occupation. You can't have a serious discussion about whether someone else is interfering in it. The basic assumption underlying the discussion is that we own the world. So if we invade and occupy another country, then it's a criminal act for anyone to interfere with it."

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...we must impeach these two idiots now and move the country and the world back toward a path to peace and non-proliferation.

For too long, the US has acted as if it owned the world, operating under a different set of rules from what it imposes on everyone else. It's okay for us to aid "freedom fighters" in other countries, because we deem them the GOOD guys. But when other countries aid "insurgents" against our occupying forces, they're the BAD guys.