14-09-2010, 12:31 AM
Walter Mitty alert:
"[F]acing a long jail sentence"? Really?
One of the readers' comments below is far better value, even if afflicted by a somewhat naive faith in the US constitution:
Quote:What would you like to forget?
There are a lot of things I regret - for example, the Indochina war. I was deeply involved with it, facing a long jail sentence. But I deeply regret that I didn't get involved until the mid-1960s, which was much too late.
The NS Interview: Noam Chomsky by Alyssa McDonald
http://www.newstatesman.com/internationa...view-obama
"[F]acing a long jail sentence"? Really?
One of the readers' comments below is far better value, even if afflicted by a somewhat naive faith in the US constitution:
Quote:Thomas Devine
13 September 2010 at 14:25
What's this nonsense about Chomsky ever facing a prison sentence. Sure Nixon would have loved to chuck him in jail, but Chomsky was protected by the US constitution even during the worse of the Nixon administration.
If Dr. Chomsky wants to be all weepy in his beer over Vietnam, why doesn't he admit that recent historical finds and released documents show that JFK (who Chomsky accuses of warmongering) fought to keep the US out of Vietnam? Could it be because Chomsky would have to admit he got it wrong?
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