u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 1 http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000789.html
Below picture is the cover illustration we recently created for The
Intellectual Activist magazine. Editor and publisher Robert Tracinski came
up with the basic idea. The challenge was to depict a fear of physical harm
from the TV's imagery, as opposed to merely a desire to avoid viewing it. In
the cover story, Tracinski writes:
http://www.tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1078
Terrorism is the weapon of those who are weak -- weak materially, weak
in numbers, weak in ideological support. And precisely for that reason,
terrorism is a weak weapon, an ineffective tactic that does not actually
empower its perpetrators to achieve any substantial military objective.
If terrorism seems to achieve its objectives -- indeed, if it seems to
threaten us with defeat -- it does not do so under its own power. Terrorism,
with the images of carnage that it produces, is merely a front, an illusion
that masks the power of a very different and more sinister force, which is
the only adversary we have to fear in this war.
The powerlessness of terrorism -- and the real power that will determine
American victory or defeat -- is the lesson to be learned from the past
eighteen months of warfare in Iraq.
One recent pair of events provides a microcosm of the current state of
the war, summing up everything that comes before it and setting the stage
for what comes after it: the assault on the insurgent -- controlled town of
Tal Afar by combined US and Iraqi government forces, conducted in a series
of engagements from September 2 through September 6 of last year -- and the
series of suicide bombings in Baghdad that followed on September 14 and 15.
... | u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 2 发信人: Mvwd (wht dsnt kill u mks u strong), 信区: Military
标 题: 一个总结：Noam Chomsky's political views
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Dec 20 11:07:59 2010, 美东)
比较长，就转贴点精彩的。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Noam_Chomsky
我不是特别理解最后一句话。
Chomsky has taken strong stands against censorship and for freedom of speech
, even for views he personally condemns. He has stated that "with regard to
freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it
vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and prefer Stalinist/
fascist standards/
关于恐怖主义
One is the fact that terrorism works. It doesn't fail. It works. Violence
usually works. That's world history. Secondly, it's a very serious analytic
error to say, as is commonly done, that terrorism is the weapon of the weak.
Like other means of violence, it's primarily a weapon of the strong,
overwhelmingly, in fact. It is held to be a weapon of the weak because the
strong also control the doctrinal systems and their terror doesn't count as
terror. Now that's close to universal. I can't think of a historical
exception; even the worst mass murderers view the world that way. So take
the Nazis. They weren't carrying out terror in occupied Europe. They were
protecting the local population from the terrorisms of the partisans. And
like other resistance movements, there was terrorism. The Nazis were
carrying out counter terror | G***G
发帖数: 16778 | 3 any country should object to any kind of terrorism.
harm
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【在 u****n 的大作中提到】
: http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000789.html
: Below picture is the cover illustration we recently created for The
: Intellectual Activist magazine. Editor and publisher Robert Tracinski came
: up with the basic idea. The challenge was to depict a fear of physical harm
: from the TV's imagery, as opposed to merely a desire to avoid viewing it. In
: the cover story, Tracinski writes:
: http://www.tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1078
: Terrorism is the weapon of those who are weak -- weak materially, weak
: in numbers, weak in ideological support. And precisely for that reason,
: terrorism is a weak weapon, an ineffective tactic that does not actually
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