Chomsky on Iraq [fwd]

[grok]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 21:32, Jim Rovira wrote:
> Ha :).  Harder to believe is the expectation of uniformity of opinion :).  Guess
> there's still some sense of Marxist orthodoxy hanging about...

A stock retort. Meaningless.




> It's a mistake -- a simple, logistical mistake -- to ascribe agency in
> international affairs only to the US.  Chomsky does this regularly.  He's like an
> inverted rah rah patriotic military dude -- both think that only America acts in
> this world, the military guy thinks we only act for good, Chomsky thinks we only
> act for evil.  Both are very cartoonish and paralyze us from facing the realities
> of the international situation.
> 
> Jim

Who the hell is doing this, here or anywhere else on the Left? I think
most of the Left has bent over BACKWARDS (or forwards if you prefer) to
avoid being tarred 'anti-american', and clearly tries to blame ALL the
'bad guys' where feasible and possible. This is IMO a straw man. Why
waste our time with this guff?

As for this yin-yang thing with Chomsky; it's worse than a straw man:
it's PLAIN WRONG. I think you simply fail to comprehend that Chomsky's
job is hard enuff simply fighting Babylon. You seem to be demanding that
he spread himself too thin, as some immaculate, perfect Being of Reason
and Enlightenment.

And not to forget that the U.S. is INDEED the world's ONLY 'hyperpower'
(snicker).




> PS Marcuse worked for the Feds too, didn't he? :).

Seems to ring a bell... But wasn't that as part of the anti-Nazi war
effort? Not quite the same thing as working with the CIA against the
Soviets, FI.


I guess the question is: who HASN'T been bought for 30 pieces of silver,
eh?





-- grok.



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