Bill Moyers om USA:s bombningspolicy

Se Bill Moyers intervjua en historiker, Marilyn Young och en gammal vapenuppfinnare, typ, Pierre Sprey. De har många intressanta saker att säga om USA och dess världsomspännande bombplanstaktik. Jag tyckte även det nedanstående sagda från Sprey var väldigt intressant. Genom att kalla det ett "krig mot terrorismen" förstorar vi och legitimerar de som utför extrema och kriminella handlingar som t ex WTC. Ett krig har minst två sidor som båda gör anspråk på att kämpa för sig och de sina, och vinner därmed popularitet. Genom att kalla det ett krig kan extremistiska rörelser öka sin legitimitet och tilldragningskraft. Vi förser dem med alla argument de behöver. Bushregimen och Västvärlden har, både genom ord och handling skapat och legitimerat uppkomsten av en sorts världsrörelse som mycket riktigt anser sig befinna sig i krig med oss.

PIERRE SPREY: This is not a war on terror. You know? And anybody who starts from the premise that it's a war on terror is heading straight into disasters error.

MARILYN YOUNG: Yeah.

PIERRE SPREY: And he said-

BILL MOYERS: I don't understand that because George W. Bush defined this as a war on terror. And I think Obama must be using the same invocation, you know?

PIERRE SPREY: Exactly.

BILL MOYERS: This is all part of the war on terror. He said it in his inaugural address.

PIERRE SPREY: Yes, he said that. I was appalled. You talk about our hearts sinking.

PIERRE SPREY: 9/11 was not an act of war.

BILL MOYERS: What was it?

PIERRE SPREY: It was a criminal act. It was a simple.

MARILYN YOUNG: Right.

PIERRE SPREY: Criminal act by a bunch of lunatic fanatic violent people who needed to be tracked down and apprehended and tried exactly as you would with any other lunatic violent person, like we do with our own domestic terrorists, like the guy who bombed the Oklahoma federal building.

BILL MOYERS: Federal building. Right.

PIERRE SPREY: You know? Exactly the same thing we did to him is what we should have launched on a huge basis, of course, on a huge international police basis and not called it.

MARILYN YOUNG: And there would have been totally international support.

PIERRE SPREY: It's not a war.

MARILYN YOUNG: Right.

PIERRE SPREY: We, by calling it a war, we have glorified al Qaeda. We have glorified the cause of violent radical Islam. All that tiny minority have become heroes. And we made them heroes. We made their propaganda. We made their case for them.

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