The Weekly Standard
Matching Chomsky is the novelist Arundhati Roy, universally praised author of "The God of Small Things." In the Manchester Guardian, she declared that | Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush are really the same person. |
Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush are really the same person. The terrorist "is nothing more the American president's dark doppelganger. The savage twin of all that purports to be beautiful and civilized. He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of 'full-spectrum dominance,' its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts. Its marauding multinationals who are taking over the air we breathe, the ground we stand on, the water we drink, the thoughts we think." |