06-09-2009, 04:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-09-2009, 07:13 PM by Charles Drago.)
Paul Rigby Wrote:Quote: "It is, to say the least, difficult to believe that the man who delivered that strident inaugural in January 1961 would have cut his losses in Vietnam four years later. And the record we now have sustains the verdict. Yet Kennedy’s success in his lifetime was built to a considerable degree on popular yearning for a hero, and to most people image will always count for more than reality. Thirty years after his death, the wishful thinkers and their spokesmen will no doubt be proof against this latest challenge to their faith." -- Noam Chomsky
"Difficult to believe" for a simple reason: The fatal flaws in Chomsky's methodology are its inabilities to identify and factor non-quantifiable input such as that which James Douglass isolates, accepts as valid influence on behavior, and examines in fine detail.
Chomsky might wish to consider this: There is sound reason indeed to conclude that the "man who delivered that strident inaugural in January 1961" had, by 12:29 PM CST on 11/22/63, ceased to exist in almost every way meaningful to this analysis.
Further, Chomsky's "yearning" for a zero-sum model for human behavior itself amounts to "wishful think[ing]" elevated to the level of "faith."
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene