My Reaction To Osama bin Laden’s Death

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My Reaction To Osama bin Laden’s Death
我对拉登之死的看法

By Noam Chomsky 作者:诺姆•乔姆斯基
07 May, 2011 / 2011-05-07
Guernica Magazine / 载：格尔尼卡杂志
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic
我们应该问问自己，如果伊拉克特种兵空降于乔治•W•布什的住所，刺杀了他，然后将尸体投入大西洋，我们会作何反应？
1 It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany. What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”
1事实已经很明确，这次行动是违反多项国际法基本准则的有预谋的刺杀。虽然参与行动的80多名特种兵几乎没有遇到任何抵抗（除了冲向他们的拉登妻子），但他们还是没有逮捕手无寸铁的受害人。在自称重视法制的社会里，嫌疑人理应被逮捕并接受公正的审判。我在此强调“嫌疑人”一词，是因为2002年4月，FBI局长罗伯特•米勒告知新闻媒体，尽管经过历史上最缜密的调查，FBI最多只能宣布自己“相信”9-11案的行动是在阿富汗策划，并在阿联酋和德国进一步实施的。由此推断，他们在2002年4月才相信的事情，自然8个月前不会知道，就是那时华盛顿拒绝了塔利班提出的给出本•拉登策划9-11的证据就交出他的方案（因为拒绝的速度之快，方案有多真诚我们无从知晓），当然我们很快就知道根来就没有证据。因此，奥巴马在白宫发言中说的“我们在9-11攻击后很快就知道是基地组织所为”纯属谎言。
2 Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.
2在那之后也从来没有明确的证据出现过。好多人会说本•拉登都“自认”了，再谈证据毫无意义。但那跟我自认赢了波士顿马拉松一样空洞无效，他不过把自己认为是个伟大成就的功绩据为己有罢了。
3 There is also much media discussion of Washington’s anger that Pakistan didn’t turn over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security forces were aware of his presence in Abbottabad. Less is said about Pakistani anger that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American fervor is already very high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it. The decision to dump the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and skepticism in much of the Muslim world.
3另外，各大媒体还在热衷讨论华盛顿对巴基斯坦的不满，因为巴军方和警方一定隐瞒了本•拉登藏在阿伯塔巴德的事实。与此同时，却没人理会美国出于政治目的在巴基斯坦领土上进行刺杀活动而引发的该国民众的愤。，反美情绪在巴基斯坦本已高涨，此次行动只会雪上加霜。而将尸体投入大海的决定，也已然在穆斯林世界产生了普遍的抗议和怀疑。
4 We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.
4我们应该问问自己，如果伊拉克特种兵空降于乔治•W•布什的住所，刺杀了他，然后将尸体投入大西洋，我们会作何反应？他的罪行远大于本•拉登已是不争的事实。布什不是“嫌疑犯”，他确确实实下达了战争命令，执行了“与其他战争罪行的差别仅在于它包含了所有的罪恶的最高级别的国际罪行”（出自纽伦堡审判，当年纳粹罪犯们因此被绞死）的“决策者”。他的罪行一目了然：数十万人的死亡、数百万难民、对他国大片的破坏、以及蔓延至周边地区的派系斗争。
5 There’s more to say about [Cuban airline bomber Orlando] Bosch, who just died peacefully in Florida, including reference to the “Bush doctrine” that societies that harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and should be treated accordingly. No one seemed to notice that Bush was calling for invasion and destruction of the U.S. and murder of its criminal president.
5这时候还应该引起关注的是一个人的平静死亡，他的名字叫博什（译者注：奥兰多•博什，制造多起爆炸事件的反古巴恐怖分子），最近在佛罗里达平静地去世了。如果“布什准则”——即接纳恐怖分子的社会和恐怖分子一样有罪并且应受惩罚——在美国这个国家一样适用的话，那么布什也应被判有罪。
6 Same with the name, Operation Geronimo. The imperial mentality is so profound, throughout western society, that no one can perceive that they are glorifying bin Laden by identifying him with courageous resistance against genocidal invaders. It’s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk… It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes “Jew” and “Gypsy.”
6还应提及的是这次行动被命名为杰罗尼莫（译者注：北美印第安人民族英雄和抵抗运动领袖），更让西方社会的帝国主义观念暴露无遗，因为甚至没人发现把本•拉登和面对屠杀与侵略英勇抵抗的英雄联系在一起是对他的称赞，这就跟以我们罪行的受害者命名的武器一样讽刺：“战斧”（译者注：战斧巡航导弹取自印第安战斧）、“阿帕奇”等等。设想如果德国空军效仿，他们的战斗机就会被称为“犹太人”和“吉普赛人”。
7 There is much more to say, but even the most obvious and elementary facts should provide us with a good deal to think about.
7这次事件还有很多值得讨论的地方，但是这些最基础的事实已足够我们思考一阵子了。
8 Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (retired) at MIT. He is the author of many books and articles on international affairs and social-political issues, and a long-time participant in activist movements. His most recent books include: Failed States, What We Say Goes (with David Barsamian), Hegemony or Survival, and the Essential Chomsky.
8诺姆乔姆斯基是麻省理工学院教授（已退休）。他还是许多书和国际事务及社会政治问题文章的作者，并是维权运动的长期参与者。他最近的著作包括：失败的国家，我们说了算（与大卫Barsamian合作），霸权还是生存，乔姆斯基的本质。

英文原文载:http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky070511.htm

附: 诺姆乔姆斯基简介: 美国语言学家、麻省理工学院教授乔姆斯基（Avram Noam Chomsky, 1928— ），2011年已83岁高龄。他的毫不妥协地激进思想，对国际政治的关注，作为语言学家、哲学家和政治活动家，乔姆斯基是近五十年来全世界最具影响力的公共知识分子和思想家之一。他在拉登死后于2011年05月07日发表《我对拉登之死的看法》的文章。乔姆斯基认为，美国击毙拉登是严重地违反了国际法的基本原则，提出：“我们应该问问自己，如果伊拉克特种兵空降于乔治•W•布什的住所，刺杀了他，然后将尸体投入大西洋，我们会作何反应？”早在此之前，2001年“911”事件发生当月，乔姆斯基的《9.11》一书即上市，一鸣惊人地反指“美国本身便是头号恐怖主义国家”。

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