Last Straw

Paul Jay inter­views Noam Chomksy on U.S. policy toward Iran:

Sup­pose it was true that Iran is help­ing insur­gents in Iraq. I mean, wasn’t the United States help­ing insur­gents when the Rus­si­ans invaded Afgh­anistan? Did we think there was any­thing wrong with that? I mean, Iraq’s a coun­try that was invaded and is under mil­it­ary occu­pa­tion. You can’t have a ser­i­ous dis­cus­sion about whether someone else is inter­fer­ing in it. The basic assump­tion under­ly­ing the dis­cus­sion is that we own the world.”