Noam Chomsky: The Real Effect of the Recent U.S. Bombings in Syria and Afghanistan (Video)
The social critic and linguist comments, "In our culture and society, it's considered very courageous to send a huge bomb somewhere"—but the consequences may not be those intended.“In our culture and society, it’s considered very courageous to send a huge bomb somewhere,” Noam Chomsky, renowned linguist and social critic, says. “Do whatever damage is done, and we all applaud the great heroic achievement of the president. That’s a cultural problem here.”
In a clip from a recent talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Chomsky discusses the Trump administration’s recent military strikes on Syria and Afghanistan and the outcome that can be expected from these acts: violence begetting violence, seemingly ad infinitum.
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