Some people find it difficult to remember their relationships’ highest spots dates. For example, the classic complaint about one of the partners forgetting the day they met or first kissed. The day to pay our bills is controverse. Some people remember, because it’s important (we definitely don’t want to have our water cut off, right?), but, on the other side, others forget, since it’s money to be spent. There are occasions, however, that you’ll never manage to forget; Your birthday, for instance! The day you were born, brought into the world, is a hard thing to be slipped by. Equally, the day so many lives were brutally taken out of this same world is ought to be remembered wistfully, and with the same intensity.
9-11 is a book which contains a series of interviews from Noam Chomsky, made just after the mentioned attack in 2001. It contains the highlights of these interviews, in which Chomsky openly speaks about terrorism and its concept, the tragedy itself, what policies should be implanted at this context and, the most important, produces a whole international analysis of this disastrous event.
But what is so interesting about this book? The questions and the answers. Interviewed by many distinct journalists from around the world, Chomsky manages to construct and relate the whole context of the ocurring events with the country’s he’s in and the US politics. Talking about US politics, it’s definitely one of the main spots in this book. As the answers go by, Noam Chomsky shows in his opinion what is behind the courtains of terrorism and the United States’ influence over it.
Regarding specifically US’ role in the international politics and the conflicts that led to this, the author is very critical. He insists in saying that The States’ only seek through their own interests and values, using examples of other attacks previously made by the mentioned potency, like the “Humanitary intervention” in Serbia by NATO and so on. Connected to this aspect, he mentions many times which benefits the country has been taking since then. Something that Chomsky deeply emphasizes throughout the whole book is the concept of the United States as a terrorist country itself and why many people don’t think so, involving ideologisms in his explanation and using many examples and approaches in order to fundament his opinion.
Personally and finally, I think this is an incredible book. The way Chomsky explores 9-11 and the multifaced perception of terrorism, its causes and consequences and involving several conflicts from the US and the international community is just very well thought. In a critical way, he makes a great analysis of the occuring and through that builds up measures to be embed in such a controverse context regarding the US, Middle East and international politics, which is the terrorist one.
