Noam Chomsky on Terrorism

[@anaghashyam9845]

Mr X is living in Afghanistan. He is a regular guy, has a shop, goes to mosque, and has a beautiful family. One fine day, a country who he didn't even know existed starts bombing his village. His family is killed, his small shop is destroyed. His friends, neighbors and relatives are suffering the same fate. His government practically doesn't exist, he has no one defending his livelihood... what would be a normal reaction to having one's family murdered, life destroyed, country destroyed by someone? Normally, one would say hate, anger and disgust towards the immoral attacker... voila there you go.

[@brianmacc1934]

Its only reasonable and understandable if ur one of gods ppl

[@lotcam4046]

​@@brianmacc1934well, sorry for your delusional but Muslims if attacked care not weather you are a child of God or people of God instead they will drag you down to the lowest respect level of humanity Oh you being people or child of God won't even ease the fear you will feel after a good encounter

[@brianmacc1934]

Ur not paying attention , the chosen and associates hv licence to do as they please

[@lotcam4046]

@@brianmacc1934 then we are seeing despite having a license they are facing intense resistance

[@brianmacc1934]

Yeah, ok dont see ur point but so what

[@furiousmat]

What I would like to point out is that after this video was recorded, the RCMP actually did release the video of Zehaf-Bibeau, the perpetrator of the attack in Ottawa, Canada. It turns out that in the video that the attacker recorded minutes before comitting his attack, he started it by saying "this is in retaliation for afghanistan and because Harper wants to send troops in Iraq". So Chomsky was right in his prediction at 2:30.

[@manoufleur9701]

can you translate the main idea in french please

[@GoombaFTW]

La raison pour l'attaque terroriste en Ottawa etait que c'est retaliation pour notre intervention en Afghanistan et car Harper a voulu plus de troops en Iraq. Mais le media ne vais jamais montrer que ces personnes ont une raison pour faire ce qu'ils faisent, nous sommes aussi coupable que ces terroristes.

[@mdabdullah4379]

An absolute genius and a respectable man. I respect this man a lot for his great conscience and good knowledge..

[@christopherhitchens163]

Sam Harris should listen to this

[@GeneralSamov]

Sam Harris had an email exchange with Chomsky on the subject, got destroyed, and went back to bashing Islam wholesale just like before. It's his livelihood after all.

[@faycal799]

i really think that he is the only one with the real competencies to run the us , he has all the qualities of a great and wise leader , and the aura of a founding father of this country

[@dyllantillman]

Barça airsoft You haven't been paying attention if that's what you really think. We're the ones best suited to run the country, we don't need leaders. Chomsky should continue to act as the head and the conscience of the people, but never our leader.

[@edoblaauw6605]

Don’t Fall for the hype.

[@MrDeano8888]

Anyone else notice that by listening to Noam your IQ score immediately jumps up a few points?

[@estebancandelaria246]

lol yea

[@NasirIsmailAwad]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@GazaFloatilla]

I wonder at what stage in Noams life he gained the ability to be able to talk at length about pretty much any subject

[@nocturne3455]

youcreatea I wouldn't say any subject. But he's generally well-read and is intelligent enough to extrapolite a lot from everything he looks into. It's just that what you see him talk about, philosophy, ethics, economics, politics, science...are all intertwined and related to one another in importance.

[@abegohr2576]

youcreatea X at ten years old.

[@flor.7797]

Ikigai

[@Red-pv7kx]

Since he got out the womb

[@mklizzar]

The day he realized USA is run by demons.

[@Baron-nv1ez]

Tip for listening to Chomsky's speeches speed them up to 1.5x to stay focused.

[@mourdebars]

it worked!

[@srper2]

The voice of reason.

[@imavileone7360]

Need more of this

[@mr.pringle8466]

I really hate when people say "This man is a national treasure".. but it really does apply.. no one and I mean NO ONE, speaks to power objectively... like Chomsky.

[@QQQQQman]

Absolutely brilliant from the great man. He is sui generis: in a class of his own.

[@a.i6554]

How can a video like this only have 27k views... smh

[@metanoiaepoch380]

powerful lecture.

[@kenmina-hs1wb]

Show this to sam harris

[@SeekingLight1]

Chomsky is the voice of America's political conscience.

[@قهقاع]

It is true.

[@pangkiatloh4555]

In USA , the native Americans resistance group leaders like Sitting Bull, Black Hawk , Crazy Horse etc. were called SAVAGES or terrorists by the British imigrants colonial gov. In India, Mahatma GANDHI was jailed & called terrorist by the British colonial gov. In Malaya now Malaysia, the local resistance leader like Mat Kilau was called terrorist. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela was jailed & called a Terrorist by the Pretoria Apartheid gov. In Libya, Omar Mukhtar ( LION OF THE DESERT) leader of the local resistance group was called terrorist by the Italian colonial gov. In Ireland, the IRA was called a Terrorist group by the Britain gov. All over the globe, a person or a group of people whom resist the occupation of theirs land by the British, USA, Germany, French, Poturgal, Spanish or Italy colonial gov. were called TERRORISTS by them. In the 911 USA incident, it was named " terrorists attack " by the US gov. Then why this time they called the attackers terrorist, but when the US Army attack or invade other country they call the local resistance group there terrorist?

[@thecanuckman16]

Is there a link to the full talk somewhere?

[@chomskysphilosophy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIDCZpWIq5iad6s

[@antonego9581]

I agree with everything he says, but there's a huge elephant in the room he ignores. Some of the motivations for terror are absolutely religious in nature and not "greivances."

[@thechannelthatdoesnotexist]

America looted and messed up many things in South american countries, all of them Christian majority, but none of those people committed brutal religious terror attacks in the name of Christianity, unlike the way Muslims do in Middle East, The American foreign policy and oil is being used as an excuse by islamic terrorists to commit terror acts, not the other way around as Chomsky claims.

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

Indeed, that is a BIG one. And even beyond religion, the very idea that any military or terrorist attack, whatever "litteral" or "doctrinal" definition one gives of them, is rooted in greivances that would be somehow legitimate and should be addressed, is a sad joke. One can condemn the Iraq war and a lot of American military actions without this rosy vision of "them".

[@notmwangi]

I live in a country with very many muslims that has had a history of terrorism 100% of real muslims condemn it, the imams that radicalise young men are manipulative Similar to cults or megachurches that use Christianity for their own gain It's not a religious issue, religion is just a tool deliberately abused for the sake of radicalising soldiers

[@paifu.]

2:00 What are the causes of terrorism?

[@heatherdavie]

One person's terrorist is another person's hero!!! There are different views in the world & the Global North is learning the hard way that their way ain't always right!!!

[@garrethoien6666]

Old single world view Noam....explain the terrorists attack due to a cartoon drawing.

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

Do I understand correctly that every atttack from any side is by definition rooted in legitimate grieviances (that one should listen to?). And do I understand correctly that Islam throuhgout the ages only cares about not being attacked on its own land (but never to expand that land?) Or do I understand correctly that for Chomsky every attack from outside the western sphere is legitimate in principle, in a perfectly symmetrical stance to the one that he justly denounces ("terror is always from the others").

[@kreed4]

No. You didn’t listen. He said one should consider the grievances, and IF legitimate, take steps to address them.

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

@@kreed4 Oh come on (and please spare me the typical "you didn't listen" Chomskian smuggness). He says that the grievances of Daesh "are real", he repeats that several times, but never articulates them other than the allusion to "defend muslim land from attack". As if "muslim land" was a well-defined thing, as if Daesh was by definition cosily at home in every "muslim land", and as if any expansionism of "muslim lands" was off the table for Daesh.

[@BrandonjSlippingAway]

​@@jean-francoisbrunet2031You must have serious comprehension issues. You keep saying Daesh, that didn't even exist at the time of this video. Even pretty much all the radical Islamic groups were/are opposed to I.S.

[@SandhillCrane42]

He isn't talking about the Moors, he's probably referring to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan that the CIA funded to oust the Soviets. It's fairly legitimate, because it's across an ocean and really none of our business. US made ISIS. Michael Flynn is a foreign agent and all the Syrian freedom fighters were ISIS. The White Helmets are ISIS. US is a terrorist.

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

@@BrandonjSlippingAway Are you so sure? Apparently this video is from 2014. But anyway, let's replace Daesh by Al Kaeda, if you prefer. So what now? (NB: "You must have serious comprehension issues": the one thing that fans of Chomsky imitate best is his pompous smuggness. My favorite bit in this video is "You might want to look into that" as in "You might want to do your homework". If I have "issues", I should consult a doctor, right? Any recommandation? And by the way, don't think that someone who can't stand Chomsky (most of the time) is nececessarily a supporter of the Bush War in Irak (or of Satan for that matter). It would be too simple.

[@bhar11190]

This does not look recent. Clarify please...

[@chomskysphilosophy]

This is from 2006.

[@GregorySherman-nr8ct]

Neural linguistics

[@thomasnguyen3925]

He talks a lot about war when he’s never had to fight.

[@Gbbb239]

Are you expecting a hardline left wing political writer to understand the nuances of war?

[@thehealthychefri]

Only obedient, conformist low IQ subjects fight Wars for the Master Class, like yourself! WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. -Major General Smedley Butler

[@GlassesAndCoffeeMugs]

Nobody in Congress who votes for war has to fight them either

[@bethenawaltz4190]

@Gwb239 theres no nuance to war, war tactics are something else entirely and us army doctrine not only exists, you can google search it; from there it's a matter of training; i think chomsky understands war as good as you or me; he's spoken at west point before as well and that's on youtube too... youtube chomsky just war theory

[@bethenawaltz4190]

what's your point? it's simple: lives lost are lives that matter; the point is that a lot of the lives killed, especially in iraq are avoidable and that there are reasons why, and that these reasons can be and should be addressed because if the shoe was on the other foot, if you and i were iraqis and some big super power comes bulldozing through when the perpetrators were probably in pakistan or afghanistan at the time, i think you and i would rightly demand justice, and that those who wield sticks justify that they do so moreso beyond just, "we've got the stick and you don't and what are you gonna do about it, and that's good enough"

[@zapwatt]

He makes claim after claim and doesn't back them up. Especially his definitions for terrorism.

[@tinguren5629]

You dont agree with his definition of terrorism?

[@tinguren5629]

You can easily look it up..