22-12-2013, 05:49 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Peter, you must be thinking of a different book. I have a PDF of Unspeakable, and a search for "Chomsky" turns up nothing.
I do remember an interview with Chomsky where he said there may have been a conspiracy, but it just didn't matter because Kennedy's policies were the same as every other Cold War president. That's a favorite fallback position by some on the Left. I won't invest any time in this because it's just like a bunch of gang lords murdering each other. It's a great way to keep people on the Left from investigating further.
Right. Sorry all. Total Brain malfunction. Been reading several books at the same time. It is in History Will Not Absolve Us. There is much about Chomsky in several places. I quote but one...which is a good summary.
"Well-known left-wing radical critic of U.S. foreign policy and MITProfessor of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky has pleaded "agnosticism" on
the question of whether there was a plot to kill the President, but
asserts that even if there was a plot, it would not be relevant, since it
had no political significance. When confronted with Salandria's articles,
Chomsky took the position that he was "unconvinced," without
offering any explanation as to what aspect of the analysis left him
unconvinced. In correspondence decades earlier with Marcus, Chomsky
seemed quite clear that there had definitely been a conspiracy. See
Appendix VIII. When pressed by Morrissey in recent correspondence,
he merely retreated to saying that he refused to believe that his friends
in the Academy of Arts and Sciences would lie (private correspondence)."
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