SOURCE: Edwards, David. Review of 9-11, by Noam Chomsky. Ecologist 32, no. 1 (February 2002): 69-70.

In the following review, Edwards presents an overview of Noam Chomsky's central arguments in 9-11.

‘Ha ha ha to the pacifists’, wrote Christopher Hitchens in November, as Kabul fell to the combined might of US bombers, the Northern Alliance, and the BBC's, ‘Simpson of Kabul’. Two months later, the victory celebrations continue tirelessly (almost maniacally), as the ‘first virtual war’ draws to a close. It was ‘an instant, foolproof, bloodless recipe, like Delia Smith for bombers’, crowed the Observer's Mary Riddell, demonstrating due respect for the untold numbers of civilian victims incinerated by US bombs and starving to death in the frozen hills of Afghanistan.

But, once again, history will not end here. And, as Noam Chomsky makes clear in [9-11, a] tiny, essential book of interviews, history is sure to swallow the vapid...