in chapter 5: !Chomsky "concludes that while it was the #Reagan administration that funded and trained the #militants that would later develop in #Al-Qaeda it was the #Clinton administration's cruise missile attack on #Afghanistan and #Sudan that turned them into anti-Western symbols and the actions of the George W. #Bush administration that intensified their terrorist activities and that the only real difference between presidential candidates John #Kerry and George W. Bush would be with regard to #domestic policy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Ambitions#Five:_History_and_Memory cc @question