VIDEO: Here’s What Noam Chomsky Really Thinks About the November Paris Attacks
When asked at a conference hosted by AcTVism Munich what European leaders should do in response to the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks on Paris, the renowned linguist raised a crucial question: "It depends what they want to do. Do they want to encourage further terrorism or do they want to end that kind of terrorism?"When asked at a conference hosted by AcTVism Munich what European leaders should do in response to the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks on Paris, the renowned linguist raised a crucial question: “It depends what they want to do. Do they want to encourage further terrorism or do they want to end that kind of terrorism?”
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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