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Chomsky claims that the United States is a leading terrorist nation. However, actual empirical studies have found ...
- You cannot say this since you do not know Chomsky's method.
That US soldiers have committed war crimes such as rapes and killing POWs is a fact. However, such acts are not approved or supported by the US government or the US military.[1] They are not the policy of the US government. The same applies even more to acts committed by to foreign groups supported but outside direct US control.
- Kind of pointless, no government has a policy directing soldiers to rape civilians.
Halperin et al. have argued
- Who?
These defenders do not contend that U.S. terrorism advances economic development or democracy in the target countries ...
- What are they discussing? If you specifically state that they are not discussing terrorism, and their defense has nothing to do with terrorism, why is in the article?
Studies have found that New York Times coverage of worldwide human rights violations predominantly focuses on the human rights violations in nations where there is clear U.S. involvement, while having relatively little coverage of the human rights violations in other nations.
- Neither source you presented states this, perhaps offer up a quote.
Niall Ferguson argues that the US is incorrectly blamed for many human rights violations in nations they have supported. For example, the US cannot credibly be blamed for all the 200,000 deaths during the long civil war in Guatemala.[9].
- Not alleged in the first place, relevance?
The US Intelligence Oversight Board[4] points out that military aid was cut for long periods because of such violations, that the US helped stop a coup in 1993, and that efforts were made to improve the conduct of the security services.
- Document states "overt funding" and also that CIA funding continued.

Hope this helps a bit. --N4G Miraflores 19:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]