06-09-2009, 10:22 PM
Charles Drago Wrote: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."
If you take care of the guy's soul, CD, I'll concentrate on hacking at the sleazeball's knees.