Is Noam Chomsky A Senior Bush Administration Official?
This recent article by Walter Russell Mead in Esquire quotes a “senior administration official” on the “real reasons” for the invasion of Iraq. DO NOT MISS THIS. What the senior administration official says could, with tiny modifications, have come out of the mouth of Noam Chomsky. Here’s the relevant section: But what were the real reasons for going into Iraq? I’d asked a senior administration official. There were two basic reasons, the official said. “One was to be rid of the Saddam Hussein regime, whose defiance of the world community had multiple consequences — not the least of which were very bad consequences for America at the strategic level.” The other was containment. Most people who opposed the war argued that containment was working, that, as the phrase went, “Saddam was in his box.” “The containment of Saddam, while not as costly in the short term as war, was still a very costly endeavor. It cost money, obviously. But that was a small part of it. “It resulted in large Amer
