In “The Resort to Fear,” published on ColdType, Noam Chomsky discusses the violence inflicted by the leaders of nations to exercise power over citizens. Chomsky uses World War I as his first example, discussing how influential individuals in Germany introduced theories that Americans and Russians were going to attempt world domination, resulting in the German’s attacking an innocent enemy out of fear. Chomskys’ second example is the bombings in December 1941 and the US’ retaliation and justification of it’s actions by arguing “legitimate exercises of self defense” (page 5). Chompsky goes on to point out that the rich have established themselves as those who must not be in the position of fear, hence Andrew Jackson’s justification
