Glenn Greenwald

Archive Links:

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120712230232/https://www.salon.com/2011/07/18/terrorism_37/
2. https://archive.is/eJTfP

[Verse 3: Brother Ali]^[[1] https://genius.com/Immortal-technique-civil-war-lyrics]

"The greatest threat of harm doesn’t come from any bomb"

"The moment you refuse the human rights for just a few"

"What happens when that few includes you? Civil war"

Genius Annotation:^[[2] https://genius.com/418418]

Ali makes an oft-overlooked point – the largest threat to the U.S. is not the act of any individual terrorist, but U.S. policies that kill innocents abroad, who sometimes turn to terrorism in retalliation. Author Glenn Greenwald breaks it down:

“If you drop cluster bombs in a country and slaughter dozens of women and children with drones and then kill a popular governor, you’re going to spawn pervasive amounts of anger and hostility towards the responsible foreign country and also embolden the message of extremists that they are under attack from the U.S and jihad is thus warranted: a shocking observation, I know — but readers of the LA Times, or at least this article on the supposed emerging threat, would have no idea that the U.S. has even been doing that in Yemen”

“That the U.S. is creating the very Terrorism problem it claims to be combating is one of the most crucial points in discussions of American Terrorism policy — it was one explicitly recognized even by a Rumsfeld-created Terrorism task force back in 2004 — but it barely is heard in American political discourse”