| fontgoddess ( @ 2008-03-31 13:09:00 |
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| Entry tags: | america, foreign policy, politics, quotations |
this is where we went wrong
“The central—and not very surprising—conclusion that emerges from the documentary and historical record is that the U.S. international and security policy, rooted in the structure of power in the domestic society, has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call the ‘Fifth Freedom,’ understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.”
— The Culture of Terrorism, 1998 Noam Chomsky
[context: Four Freedoms, Fifth Freedom @ Wikipedia]