It is-it reflects the loss of hope among a great many people around the world in the face of our overwhelming power. This morning’s New York Times says, “A Day of Terror.” I’d have to say it was a day of revenge, a day of blowback. How do you think these words that you wrote years ago in your book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson, apply to today?ĬHALMERS JOHNSON: Well, that’s exactly what has happened. Military crimes, accidents, and atrocities make up only one category on the debit side of the balance sheet that the United States has been accumulating, especially since the Cold War ended.” “For any empire, including an unacknowledged one, there is a kind of balance sheet that builds up over time. “The byproducts of this project are likely to build up reservoirs of resentment against all Americans-tourists, students, and businessmen, as well as members of the armed forces-that can have lethal results. In his book, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, he writes, “I believe it is past time…for Americans to consider why we have created an empire-a word from which we shy away-and what the consequences of our imperial stance may be for the rest of the world and for ourselves. We’re joined on the phone by Chalmers Johnson, a leading scholar of Asia and U.S.-Asian relations.
It is correct that we had aircraft flying protective missions at various places in the United States today, and they will do that as appropriate.ĪMY GOODMAN: And that is Secretary of Defense, or War, Donald Rumsfeld, speaking at the Pentagon late yesterday. How much more of a military presence will we see, now that this incident has occurred, for the next week?ĭONALD RUMSFELD: Those kinds of decisions are made day to day. Secretary, today we say military planes both in New York and in Washington. What words the lawyers will use to characterize it is for them. Secretary, do you consider what happened today, both in New York and here, an act of war?ĭONALD RUMSFELD: There is no question but that the attack against the United States of America today was a vicious, well-coordinated, massive attack against the United States of America.
Secretary, could you tell us what you saw? AMY GOODMAN: And just as that sunset was taking place, Donald Rumsfeld and the military command were holding a news conference at the Pentagon.
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