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Boston Globe writer sez anthrax attacks were "Gulf of Tonkin"
'Now, the operating assumption is that the anthrax cases, unrelated to bin Laden, are domestic crimes, not acts of war. But for a crucial moment, they effectively played the role in this war that the Gulf of Tonkin ''assault'' played in the Vietnam War, as sources of a war hysteria that ''united'' the nation around a mistake. In such a context, the more doubt is labeled disloyal, the more it grows. The more this war is deemed ''just,'' the more it seems wrong.' -- James Carroll, The Boston Globe.
Chomsky's more coherent.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-11-27 |
