11-11-2009, 03:14 AM
I think Paul's done a pretty good hatchet job on Chomsky in this thread, and a fully justified one at that.
Chomsky might have been a groundbreaking linguist but his malicious misrepresentation of Kennedy's role in Vietnam (once and for all, the first aerial bombing of Vietnam was in February 1965 and the first combat troops were dispatched the following month) and his bizarre 'who cares' re 9/11 and JFK effectively negate a lifetime of railing against US imperialism.
Throw in the question of where the money came from and I think one can safely say that Chomsky was and is someone's asset. Not ours, though.
Chomsky might have been a groundbreaking linguist but his malicious misrepresentation of Kennedy's role in Vietnam (once and for all, the first aerial bombing of Vietnam was in February 1965 and the first combat troops were dispatched the following month) and his bizarre 'who cares' re 9/11 and JFK effectively negate a lifetime of railing against US imperialism.
Throw in the question of where the money came from and I think one can safely say that Chomsky was and is someone's asset. Not ours, though.