Anyone looking at this whole situation objectively would have to say that the US is acting as a terrorist agency wreaking massive destruction on helpless populations in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There is, in fact, no comparing the sporadic attacks on the US by terrorists -- usually terrorists whose plans were known in advance and were aided and abetted by US-paid informants and provocateurs, I should add -- and the almost constant attacks on the people of those countries launched by the US terrorists in Washington, who are using drones and piloted aircraft.
It's no longer surprising to see our corporate media ignoring this ugly reality. But it is amazing how easily the US public has bought into the false narrative that we are the victims, or the potential victims, of crazed terrorists in the Middle East who want to kill us because they "hate our freedom," when the reality, so obviously, is that it is our government that is killing them, both by raining death down from the sky and by fomenting and reigniting ancient hatreds within their societies.
Native American activist Ward Churchill was unfairly hounded out of his tenured job as a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado simply because he had the temerity to write, shortly after 9-11, that those attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were a case of America's "chickens coming home to roost." He was dead right of course, and should never have been fired for correctly pointing out that America's decades of imperialist interventions and economic piracy across the globe had created the kind of desire for vengeance that can drive some people to make even suicidal efforts to exact revenge.
Washington's warmongers are now warning grimly that the chaos in Yemen and the evacuation of US troops from there could make that country a haven for terrorists who could "threaten Americans." A more honest way to phrase that though, is to say that we Americans should not be surprised if Obama's cowardly and secretive (from us!) war from the air upon desperately poor people like those of Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan ends up hatching more of the same kinds of roosting chickens we've already had some experience with.
DAVE LINDORFF is a member of ThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent, uncompromised, five-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative newspaper. His work, and that of colleagues JOHN GRANT, GARY LINDORFF, ALFREDO LOPEZ, LORI SPENCER, LINN WASHINGTON, JR. and the late CHARLES M. YOUNG, can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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