In regards to Daily coverage of current events:

I suggest that anyone that wants a real, insightful look inside the affairs of the world today, read “Rogue States” by Noam Chomsky. This book will open your eyes to U.S., U.K., and U.N. actions throughout the world over in the past 50 years. I doubt anyone knows that U.S. foreign policy is to make us “appear vindictive, unpredictable and irrational.”

This has been, and continues to be, the way the United States flexes its muscles. Anyone with any interest in current affairs will be absolutely blown away with the contents within this, or any, Chomsky book. North Korea is just the next victim in a predetermined campaign against outlaw states that were defined in the first Bush’s outline for global dominance. This book was written pre-Sept. 11, and basically outlines verbatim what our government has done in the last two years. To paraphrase, in the absence of the Cold War, and reduction in radical nationalism, the United States will need a new, shadowy scapegoat to justify future incursions. He names drug trafficking or international terrorism. He goes on to extensively name the U.N. Resolutions our government will (did) use to invade Iraq. It’s almost chilling.

Want to be completely shell-shocked? Check out the August 2000 issue of Maxim magazine. David Hackworth, the most decorated officer of the Vietnam War, and popular political analyst on CNN, writes of the likelihood of a terrorist attack on American soil. He remarks that “this dude [Bin Laden] ain’t gonna give up.” Well, he wrote that 13 months before the Trade Center went down.

I suggest that anyone who cares inquire as to why soldiers from the seventh Special Forces Group are showing up dead as killed in the Middle east, in Fort Devens, Maryland, the receiving point for all casualties. The seventh group’s area of responsibility is South America, and nearly all active Operational Detachments are located in, or very near to, Columbia. If you’re not afraid of what you may find, look deeper.

Walt Shumate

Alumnus