America: Terrorist Empire

It's become chic to label anything with which one disagrees terror. Nobody has surpassed certain radical Arabs at the practice, but Mark Weisbrot comes close.

Weisbrot thinks that the American government aided the coup plotters in Venezuela (he's probably right, to the extent a wink and a nod constitute aid), and that in so doing, the U.S. behaved as a terrorist state:

The administration has sent a clear and ugly message to the world: You can play by the rules, but for us, there are no rules. Theirs is the ethic of the terrorist, driven not by the desperation of the poor and powerless, but by the desire of the richest and most powerful state on Earth to rule over others.

So the United States is not only a terrorist nation, but it's a terrorist nation apt on establishing a world empire.

I'm glad he cleared that up. For some silly reason, I thought America was the most powerful nation in the history of the world successfully to resist the temptation of world empire.

[Posted at 23:28 CST on 04/16/02] [Link]