LONDON, September 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - “If we insist on creating more swamps, there will be more mosquitoes, with awesome capacity for destruction.”

This is how Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a writer in the U.K. newspaper the Guardian, summed up the negative consequences of U.S. policies around the world, in an article published by the newspaper on September 9.

“September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived,” said Chomsky.

He said that while it may be comforting to “pretend that our enemies "hate our freedoms," as President Bush stated, but it is hardly wise to ignore the real world, which conveys different lessons.”

Chomsky said that nearly 44 years ago, U.S. President Eisenhower also asked himself the same question that President Bush asks today: “Why do they hate us?” and his national Security Council outlined the basic reasons: the U.S. supports corrupt and oppressive governments and is "opposing political or economic progress" because of its interest in controlling the oil resources of the region.

“Post-September 11 surveys in the Arab world reveal that the same reasons hold today, compounded with resentment over specific policies. Strikingly, that is even true of privileged, western-oriented sectors in the region,” said Chomsky.

He said that the same people who hate U.S. official policies are the same who admire the U.S’s freedoms.

“We should also be aware that much of the world regards Washington as a terrorist regime. In recent years, the U.S. has taken or backed actions in Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama, Sudan and Turkey, to name a few, that meet official U.S. definitions of "terrorism" - that is, when Americans apply the term to enemies,” said Chomsky in his article.

What fuels the campaign of hatred in the Arab world towards the U.S., Chomsky said, is the U.S. policies towards Israel-Palestine as well as Iraq. “The U.S. has provided the crucial support for Israel's harsh military occupation, now in its 35th year,” he said, adding that one way for the U.S. to lessen the Israeli-Palestinian tensions would be to stop refusing to join the long-standing international consensus that calls for recognition of the right of all states in the region to live in peace and security, including a Palestinian state in the currently occupied territories.

The U.S. policies in Iraq have led to a decade of harsh sanctions, which has strengthened Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein while leading to the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis,” said Chomsky.