16-05-2010, 01:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-05-2010, 01:45 PM by Austin Kelley.)
Once again, we're looking towards a synthesis ala Peter Dale Scott, where things are not so simple as "the CIA runs the President" nor "the President runs the CIA" but rather that it is the Deep Political System which organizes, frames and defines many of the covert actions with which we are concerned.
As to Chomsky being a "Zionist"- that's rather a stretch. It's always possible to play more radical than Thou (provocateurs do this all the time) but Chomsky is clearly an important critic of the policies of the Israeli State. I don't agree with him in every way but I certainly don't buy the extreme right-wing conspiracy model which often makes use of tropes like the putative world Jewish, er-Zionist conspiracy, broad use of "left gatekeeper" charges, and the like.
All of this sort of gratuitous CIA-baiting seems to be both thoughtless and destructive to me. Isn't it time we moved beyond this, taking guidance from the exemplary lead of Peter Dale Scott?
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As to Chomsky being a "Zionist"- that's rather a stretch. It's always possible to play more radical than Thou (provocateurs do this all the time) but Chomsky is clearly an important critic of the policies of the Israeli State. I don't agree with him in every way but I certainly don't buy the extreme right-wing conspiracy model which often makes use of tropes like the putative world Jewish, er-Zionist conspiracy, broad use of "left gatekeeper" charges, and the like.
All of this sort of gratuitous CIA-baiting seems to be both thoughtless and destructive to me. Isn't it time we moved beyond this, taking guidance from the exemplary lead of Peter Dale Scott?
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