died on September11. In fact, this U.S. action may havebeen another component in the terrorists hateful vengeance on September 11,since Sudan is a predominantly Muslim country. Anyway, when Chomsky made that comparison, he was branded with feverishand fanciful condemnations[26]. This leads us to the question: How much is ahuman life worth? Is an American worthmore than a Chinese, a Brazilian, or an Afghani? The pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was theonly source of medicine in the country. At the Twin Towers there were people from all over the world, not justAmericans. In the name of freedom, orvalues, the U.S. led a war in an impoverished and already war-torncountry. From one day to the other,Afghanistan was declared a site of evil, the Taliban was suddenly declared amysoginist regime, when before September 11 no one seemed to care[27]. The discourse on human rights is the newjustification, together with the one on terrorism, through which actions andwars are waged in order to serve hidden but not very well interests atstake. In order to root out evil anyChristian fundamentalism here? cities were bombed from the air, killingthousands of people. The criminals thatwere to be targeted, like Mullah Omar and Bin Laden, were not yet found,although Operation Enduring Freedom was successful in killing Omars wife andchildren (and therefore in rooting out evil?). The war on terrorism only shows that, yes,there are Americans that are racist or ignorant enough to think that theirlives are worth more than other peoples. Indeed, on September 16, 2001, TheNew York Times reported that the U.S.demanded that Pakistan cut all food shipments and humanitarian aid toAfghanistan[28]. Millions of people were totally dependent onthose shipments. After much discussionin the world media, and because of the response of people, the U.S. decided toairdrop packages. These contained evenrotten food, they were dropped at night near the bombings, and some looked likelandmines. By mistake, many childrentook land mines for packages, and got killed[29]. The arrogance and racism are clear, forexample, when former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says on nationaltelevision, regarding the estimate that half a million Iraqi children had diedas a consequence of U.S. sanctions: we think the price is worth it.[30] The U.S. and Israeli States are quite openabout their racist and imperialist attitudes. In 1987 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution on the matter ofinternational terrorism, and the resolution passed 153 to 2, the U.S. andIsrael voting against it. Honduras, by then a colony of the United States afteryears of terrorism, abstained. Thepassage of the resolution that offended the two friends states: nothing inthe present resolution could in any way prejudice the right to self-determination,freedom and independence, as derived from the Charter of the United Nations, ofpeoples forcibly deprived of that right..., particularly peoples under colonialand racist regimes and foreign occupation or other forms of colonialdomination, nor...the right of these peoples to struggle to this end and to seekand receive support [in accordance with the Charter and other principles ofinternational law].[31] This brings us to thedefinitions of terrorism. At the UN,the United States will not accept the definition above, it will only accept adefinition