Chomsky: "It's not radical Islam that worries the US – it's independence"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence

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The vibrant democracy movement in Tunisia was directed against "a police state, with little freedom of expression or association, and serious human rights problems", ruled by a dictator whose family was hated for their venality. So said US ambassador Robert Godec in a July 2009 cable released by WikiLeaks.

Therefore to some observers the WikiLeaks "documents should create a comforting feeling among the American public that officials aren't asleep at the switch" – indeed, that the cables are so supportive of US policies that it is almost as if Obama is leaking them himself (or so Jacob Heilbrunn writes in The National Interest.)

"America should give Assange a medal," says a headline in the Financial Times, where Gideon Rachman writes: "America's foreign policy comes across as principled, intelligent and pragmatic … the public position taken by the US on any given issue is usually the private position as well."

"America should give Assange a medal," says a headline in the Financial Times, where Gideon Rachman writes: "America's foreign policy comes across as principled, intelligent and pragmatic … the public position taken by the US on any given issue is usually the private position as well."

i'm not sure about asking for dna information on the head of the un is principled, intelligent and pragmatic -- but touche -- point taken!

The American people don't know how to hear the truth.

I agree with much of it, but DC is not supporting Mubarak. Chomsky seems to have missed that.

statements all during this revolution, some mere hours apart, particularly by State.

please elaborate. The Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday supporting Mubarak stepping down sooner rather than later, and that's been the message from the Admin over the past few days. What am I missing?

of Mubarak, then flipping and claiming they were in support of the protesters, then saying Mubarak should begin transition now, WHILE the President was still opting for a more orderly process. AJ had a segment where they showed these flips with a slowing moving graphic of a calendar underneath. It was much more extensive then I have commented on.

He's a bitter reminder.