Interview With Chomsky  Mark Thomas: If we can start with US
foreign policy in relation to Iraq and the War on Terror, what
do you think is going on at the moment?  Noam Chomsky: First of
all I think we ought to be very cautious about using the phrase
‘War on Terror’. There can’t be a War on Terror. It’s a logical
impossibility. The US is one of the leading terrorist states in
the world. The guys who are in charge right now were all
condemned for terrorism by the World Court. They would have been
condemned by the U.N. Security Council except they vetoed the
resolution, with Britain abstaining of course. These guys can’t
be conducting a war on terror. It’s just out of the question.
They declared a war on terror 20 years ago and we know what they
did. They destroyed Central America. They killed a million and a
half people in southern Africa. We can go on through the list.
So there’s no ‘War on Terror’.  There was a terrorist act,
September 11th, very unusual, a real historic event, the first
time in history tha