Link to Noam Chomsky, Distorted morality: A war on terrorism? documentary
Documentary Description
The hypocrisy of the U.S. government is powerfully scrutinized in Distorted Morality,
a scathing thesis presented by renowned scholar Noam Chomsky. Speaking
before an intimate audience at Harvard University on February 6, 2002,
Chomsky sets fair and logical parameters to his thesis (namely, we are all hypocrites and, for the purposes of debate, the U.S. government should always be given benefit of the doubt) before outlining, with academic precision and citation of real history (as opposed to biased written history), the reasons why America's post-9/11 war on terror is a logical impossibility.
This, according to Chomsky's carefully supported analysis, is because
the U.S. government has been, and continues to be, a major supporter of
state-supported terrorism, favoring retaliatory or preemptive aggression
over mediation in the world court, and avoiding accountability by
excluding itself from the globally accepted definition of terrorism. (To
underscore his point, Chomsky repeatedly volunteers his sources,
inviting scrutiny at every turn.) With an additional hour-long Q&A
session (in some ways more compelling, since it offers Chomsky's
response to opposing viewpoints), Distorted Morality deserves the
widest possible audience. In the short period between Chomsky's Harvard
speech and the start of America's war against Iraq in March 2003,
Chomsky's thesis has attained the chilling status of prophesy.
Inevitably, Chomsky will be labeled anti-American, but at least his morality is crystal clear, immune to the obfuscation of politics and mainstream news
