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Originally posted by globegate
Not to flame, but Chomsky believes like many other liberals that we should not be fighting in Iraq. He bases this conclusion on what he refers to in this interview as a hidden agenda on behalf of the bush administration to get reeelcted and ensure we have oil.
Noam is like the John Madden of politics: 1) restates the obvious. 2) is sincere 3) Is Sincerely wrong.
Ok tell me this doesn't sound like a left wing wackjob to you " this administration evidently will attempt to take away any civil rights that it can from citizens and I think it s basically correct. That fits in with their reactionary statist policies which have a domestic aspect in the economy and social life but also in politicallife."
That is total crap. We are taking civil liberties away from terrorists, suspected terrorists, and their supporters. The ffounding fathers never intended our laws and customs to extend to enemys within our mist.
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Well, given the argument leading up to that, it does sound like he believes it. He doesn't sound any less a wackjob than a lot of the right wing tools that spout about Iraq's nucular arsenal and how we need to protect ourselves from terrorists with ICBMs.
Chomsky makes points, some are valid, some are not. Something other than a personal attack is usually more effective. Is the current administration not showing signs of being a reactionary statist organization? Does TIA, Carnivore and the ability to arrest without Miranda protect your rights? Is Patriot II a myth? etc. Obviously you feel strongly, I honestly would like to hear the other side as well. That's the point of these things.
@ARTelevision : You are right, an expert in Linguistics does not imply expertise in other topics. But media and politics are topics that he's been studying and writing about in depth since the mid 1970's at least. His degree may have been in Linguistics, but the essays and documents produced since then show that he has turned to different topics. And, agree with him or not, he is respected in that field.