COUNTER-ATTACK

"Attack on America" quickly became and has remained the banner headline for the constant stream of television programming this week. It has in fact been a constant jet stream of RE PROGRAMMING public response. For the headlne, which has become an advertising Logo for the commoditizing of the terror event should have read instead, "Counter Attack on America." No one need copyright or patent "Attack on America", for it has already passed into public subconsciousness with the assonant genius of the slogan: Unrelenting repetiton will succeed in stamping this spin on the Victorola: "His Master's Voice." The mass media has informed us that it is to be thought of as "an unprovoked and dastardly attack," and the parallels were immediately drawn, by no less than the chief war criminal himself, Henry Kissinger, that this was a New Pearl Harbor. (A court in Chile has recently sent him a subpoena.) Feeble and few were the attempts to find if there might have been even an unfortunate but mistaken provocation in the history of U.S. relations with the wretched of the earth, nor was any attempt made to interview any of the rejoicing Arab children and youth, dancing in glee, waving Palestinian banners and sharing sweets. Even our bought-and-paid-for Arab puppets from the oil-rich dictatorships fell into line, singing Washington's refrains. We will not listen to the grief behind the children's cheers, the extent to which their young lives have been deformed by Israeli and U.S. sponsored terror.

Now most of the U.S. media are treating this as a "Who Dunnit?", and gives the impression that there will in fact, when Colin Powell, our Agatha Cristie, has finished her work, be an identifiable network of "terrorist cells" or "a rogue state" that has engineered the blow. We will then do a swift surgical strike, like the ones we did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki to castigate the perpetrators of Pearl Harbor. Noam Chomsky as usual<