Prof. Noam Chomsky on American goal in Afghanistan and Pakistan

[nelrish24]

I can't imagine where you read any of that garbage. $500 billion in opium?

[punxsutawneybarney]

Dr. Chomsky says that the US has no evidence against Osama that would stand up in court.

Last fall he told Iranian TV that at the time of US invasion of Afghanistan, they had no evidence that al Qaeda had done 9/11.

See my video:

Chomsky on Faith Based Wars and 9/11

[BigMikeMcBastard]

I'd also like to point out that Noam Chomsky here thinks your conspiracy theories regarding 9/11 are nonsense and that nobody who knows anything takes them seriously. There's a video of it here on YouTube, go give it a watch and then rethink your position on this.

[qonf]

@30sad Can you cite your source for the aid package claim?

[qonf]

@30sad So this is the official story, can you cite the "real" story?

[30sad]

@qonf Here's one version: The Taliban, the US and the resources of Central Asia

By Peter Symonds, published on 24 October 2001 on: w s w s DOT o r g

[candyman987100]

I would love to return to my family once De area is safe. which is the coalitions doing helping the people of my country. Go and lick Balls rather than come up with shit against your own conutry.

[candyman987100]

You wan***S obviously support child prostitution, millitant killings and terrorism then. get a life and just support your countrys fight to bring peace to the world

[candyman987100]

I am an iraqi and proud who has now settled in the united kingdom and i find it very offensive when sad acts with nothing betar to do with time make up s**t about the americans who have done so much spent so much and lost so much lives to bring peace to our world. my children were beaten by millitants. these americans and british and coalition forces have lost so much just to bring peace to innocent people. then some scumbags who obviously support child beating and terrorism make comments

[gavloft]

@candyman987100 I 100% agree with everything you have typed. I hope iraq will flourish in years to so you can return and live in peace. This is your first ever youtube video view and first ever comment! you have landed on a noam chomsky video i hope that wasnt intentional. Best of luck and Happy youtubing sir!

[Darusdei]

@candyman987100 yeah run away to a 1st world country and let the americans do the fighting for you... but seriously be real, the moment you got citizenship you're NEVER going to return the place you came...

hypocrisy at it's best...

[candyman987100]

I am an iraqi and proud who has now settled in the united kingdom and i find it very offensive when sad acts with nothing betar to do with time make up s**t about the americans who have done so much spent so much and lost so much lives to bring peace to our world. my children were beaten by millitants. these americans and british and coalition forces have lost so much just to bring peace to innocent people. then some scumbags who obviously support child beating and terrorism make comments

[09geauxtigers]

"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."- Friedrich Hayek

[mikecorbeil]

I fully agree with Chomsky. I only learned one thing from this and it's the US having asked to have observer status in SCO, which is laughable. The US has been militarily building up a LOT in Eastern Europe and and Central Asia, and anyone aware this and what SCO is about would have immediately known that this request would be obvious US imperialism again.

[DontEatEggs666]

Hey, I'm 16 and I read a lot of Chomsky books, but I can't really find other intellectuals like him. Can anyone give me a few?

I've only found Howard Zinn and Chomsky.

[Bellantoni]

@DontEatEggs666 christopher hitchens

[ysmkit]

@DontEatEggs666 rad about the Life History of Muhammad by Martin Lings...

[tristramshandy3]

@DontEatEggs666 you absolutely MUST read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Also, Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class" is worthwhile.

[TheCe1ebrity]

@DontEatEggs666 Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel, Gore Vidal. I wouldn't reccomend Hitchens as he holds complete opposite views of Chomsky and Zinn on many issues including Afghanistan.

[Skeptic87]

@DontEatEggs666 Aldous Huxley and Michael Parenti are Chomsky-like.

[Skeptic87]

@Skeptic87 I don't like Parenti that much. John Stockwell, John Pilger I like.

[dgl1962]

The US is in its death throes.

We know that our dollar will collapse and be replaced,we also know that we must secure energy before that happens,we can also cut China off from much of the energy sources that it will need to supercede the US in global power.

Invading Afghanistan,Iraq and destroying Iran to steal its oil/gas will accomplish all of these goals.

Absolutely none of our actions has anything to do with "fighting terrorism",that is fed to the sheep to keep them distracted.

[MrDaemonB]

the weeks prior to 911 colleagues and I were discussing the Taliban view of American friendly opium cartels.we debated as to how US could manufacture support for an invasion of Afganistan,along the lines of sinking a US ship and blaming the Cubans....we knew the CIA couldnt walk away from their vested interests,.so 911 occured as predicted.I am surprised that its taking so long for the truth to become mainstream.I look forward to hearing the Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld tribunals,Treason and war crimes

[bewaver]

Apparently you weren't the only one, not really for Afghanistan, given there are cross-asset reasons for 911. Google "The Hour of Our Time", and how William (Bill) Cooper died form being too smart, it seems that it not really healthy to be too smart in the states, hence the reason why Chomsky always plays dumb when it comes to JFK or 911, he has far too much experience to make that kind of faux pas.

[Bladerunner507]

and Obama.

[BigMikeMcBastard]

@MrDaemonB The US had been attacked previously by Al Qaeda. If they wanted to go to war for something as stupid as opium production they could have used the various attacks previously which Clinton wasn't able to get enough support to stage an attack to capture bin Laden on. Alternatively, they could have simply made up a reason and told the CIA/etc to bullshit their way through it like they did with Iraq. The idea that they'd fly planes into their own buildings to invade Afghanistan is absurd.

[MrDaemonB]

@BigMikeMcBastard 'stupid as opium production'? Afghan opium importation is one of the biggest US imports, upwards of 500 billion $ a year. A huge percentage of that $ floats the NYSE.(CIA mandate) Sure they've lacked political support for past invasions of central American countries, among others. And opted to go in covertly. But the magnitude of this invasion had to be backed politically. Can you think of an alternative means they could have used to manufacture such support?

[BigMikeMcBastard]

@MrDaemonB You have no idea what you are talking about. I can't imagine where you read any of that garbage. $500 billion in opium? The entirety of Afghanistan's production of opium doesn't even come close to that. Opium revenue is ~$3 billion.

Furthermore, the US is actively discouraging the production of opium in Afghanistan. It's a major way the Taliban is gaining support, as they instead encourage and support opium production. So your reason for invasion isn't supported by ANY facts at all.

[MrDaemonB]

@BigMikeMcBastard Taliban burned poppy fields, US occupation has regenerated the crops 100%, any report that says US regime is anti opium, is lies....500Billion may include all illegal drug money laundered by the CIA via NYSE, but mostly heroin $, and Afghanistan leads world production. So yeah my figures were somewhat inaccurate.

[BigMikeMcBastard]

@MrDaemonB Right, so there's some vast CIA conspiracy involving the laundering of drug money which involved the deaths of thousands of Americans prior to the war, however-many Americans and NATO forces after the way, all those civilians etc, and it's you... MrDaemonB... who has managed to get to the bottom of it and find out the truth, when all these veteran investigative journalists and political thinkers like Chomsky haven't even detected a whiff of it.

Are you fucking high? Seriously.

[Royak]

@MrDaemonB Wow. Not that I care about Chomsky's ideas, but you seem to so have you ever heard what he says about idiotic conspiracy theories such as yours? Check it Noam’s comments about 9/11 conspiracy theorist out; you might have to find a new speaker to mindlessly follow after you do that.

[spicaaychicken]

..............nts their economic interests, attempting to rehash the extreme divide between the rich and poor, and our economic meltdown. When has logic and history given you any reason to believe the governments thinks minimally, or at all of your interests. Where do you draw the line?

[spicaaychicken]

Your level of indoctrination is unbelievable. Apparently you believe the U.S. has some divine right of being in Afghanistan. Clearly the U.N. Charter states every country has the right of self-determination in its own affairs. Assuming you think we have the right to invade Afghanistan, you must believe its fair in some relation to September 11th (I cant see any other reasoning). Then you may also think it would be fair that Iraqis invade Washington DC and institute a government which compleme

[bewaver]

lol it doesn't seem to sink in into people head, that now if somebody ever manages, god forbids, to invade, bomb, or damage the US in any shape or form, everybody will just say "they had it coming". China owns most of the US debt, do you think they are just sitting there and watching, I really hope the US has an exit strategy, because that's what happens with bullies they get smacked on the nose very hard, then they go complain that everybody is unfair.

[Brulluhman]

Can't we just build a wall in the middle of Afghanistan. Tell the Russians and Chinese to do their part, we do our part. Who's cleared the job first gets to leave.

That Taliban is trained in Pakistan. From there they operate in Afghanistan. Pakistan is runned by maffia. If you give the Afghan people a alternative.. not to build resources for heroin but something else. Thatway that Taliban is moneydry. They can't finance their part of the war.

[Brulluhman]

That oilpipeline of Russia has to go through Afghanistan. That's why the Russians have been there. Now we are there. That's because to isolate Iran?

So Iran is not going to be a player in Asia?

Look Turkey is making big friends with Iran and Syria. I think it's all fucked up.

[citycentregreen]

why r we so bloody dead. why can't we open our eyes if not know then when. we don't smash our head against the wall when it gets late. C'mon Pakistani get up . try to undrstand the consipiracy going on against the existance of our country.

[HarryQuiteContrary]

With Obama looking at greener pastures of renewable energy, there's been a clear paradigm shift. There is growing public pressure in the US to pull out of Afghanistan.

India has a major presence in Afghanistan with at least $1 billion investment in the communications infrastructure. That includes linking Kabul to an Iranian port to end the dependence on Pakistan.

The US has approved of this bcause it too is looking to limit Pakistan's role in Afghanistan.

Chomsky is still living in the 1990s.

[Foxer35]

Much as I, and a bunch of other people, would like to believe that, it's become clear that Obama is taking the advice of Gates and the Neo-cons and actually escalating the military presence in Afghanistan. I doubt he has the same interests in mind as them, and I'd like to think he isn't as bad, but that he's been thoroughly convinced by the noble man behind the Iraq fiasco that Afghanistan is a legitimate threat to US security.

[jessekanner]

@haitch76 - yes, I agree. You forgot the third thing: we preach freedom, practice world empire... THEN we can't believe why so many people hate and distrust us in the world and why certain adversarial relationships seem unsolvable.

[SomeUsefulVids]

YOU don't practice empire, the aristocracy in control of your country practices empire.

The people are largely decent despite the propaganda they are bombarded with. A little apathetic maybe but that's the goal of public relations, marginalise regular people to avert the threat of democracy.

[haitch76]

Right on, Prof. Chomsky!

We preach freedom and but we practice world empire.

[gavloft]

@haitch76 hit the nail on the head