Classic chomsky on the boston bombings..

[Jan Klimkowski]

Chomsky works within an analytical and philosophical model that he's developed over decades.

He is not an investigative reporter.

His acceptance of large parts of the Official Story of the Boston bombing is lazy and dangerous nonsense.

Just as his acceptance of large parts of the Official Story of the JFK assassination is lazy and dangerous nonsense.

However, his identification of the lazy hypocrisy of ordinary Americans and their sense of moral entitlement is entirely correct.

In the grand scheme of things, the Murder From Above of US drone strikes, frequently slaughtering innocent men, women and children, from some remote location, is as great a crime against humanity as the Boston bombings.

To be clear: the Boston bombings which killed innocent people were an atrocity.

The routine drone strikes in developing countries which maim and kill innocent people are an atrocity.

It's rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily - for example, in a remote village in Yemen, the same week as the marathon bombings.

On April 23, Yemeni activist and journalist Farea Al-Muslimi, who had studied at an American high school, testified before a US Senate committee that right after the marathon bombings, a drone strike in his home village in Yemen killed its target.

The strike terrorized the villagers, turning them into enemies of the United States - something that years of jihadi propaganda had failed to accomplish.

His neighbors had admired the US, Al-Muslimi told the committee, but "Now, however, when they think of America, they think of the fear they feel at the drones over their heads. What radicals had previously failed to achieve in my village, one drone strike accomplished in an instant."

Rack up another triumph for President Obama's global assassination program, which creates hatred of the United States and threats to its citizens more rapidly than it kills people who are suspected of posing a possible danger to us someday.

The target of the Yemeni village assassination, which was carried out to induce maximum terror in the population, was well-known and could easily have been apprehended, Al-Muslimi said. This is another familiar feature of the global terror operations.