MB Civic

Chomsky …

Even before the Tet offensive there were growing doubts … As [Arthur Schlesinger] put it, “we all pray” that the hawks will be right and that the surge of the day will bring victory. And if it does, we will be praising the “wisdom and statesmanship” of the US government in gaining military victory while leaving “the tragic country gutted and devastated by bombs, burned by napalm, turned into a wasteland by chemical defoliation, a land of ruin and wreck,” with its “political and institutional fabric” pulverized. But escalation probably won’t succeed and will prove to be too costly for ourselves, so perhaps strategy should be rethought. Little has changed today when Obama is hailed as a leading opponent of the Iraq invasion because it was a “strategic blunder,” words that one could also have read in Pravda by the mid-1980s. The imperial mentality is very deeply rooted

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