By George Scialabba - May 15, 2011
After 9/11, Noam Chomsky wrote that...what was new about the murder of 3000 civilians was that it was carried out against the United States rather than by the United States...Chomsky was generally reviled for this suggestion...It was widely assumed...that to explain was to excuse...to assign any motive except impotent envy, theological rancor, or eliminationist anti-Semitism to al-Qaeda and its allies was ruled “anti-American”...Christopher Hitchens joined this...exercise...
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