Noam Chomsky | The Sledgehammer Worldview
Noam Chomsky |
The Sledgehammer Worldview
Monday, 07 July 2014 00:00
By Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed
The front page of
The New York Times on June 26 featured a photo of women mourning a murdered Iraqi.
He is one of the innumerable victims of the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) campaign in which the Iraqi army, armed and trained by the U.S. for many years, quickly melted away, abandoning much of Iraq to a few thousand militants, hardly a new experience in imperial history.
Right above the picture is the newspaper's famous motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print."
There is a crucial omission. The front page should display the words of the Nuremberg judgment of prominent Nazis - words that must be repeated until they penetrate general consciousness: Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." ............(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/24796-noam-chomsky-the-sledgehammer-worldview