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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Why the ironically? Chomsky has always analyzed events from the point of view of motives, profits, history, etc. You may disagree with him, but he does not claim that the US or Israel or whoever acts the way it does because they are just evil, or anything like that.
The only "irony" I pointed to was that the quote was from Chomsky attacking "the Left," in this case for its tolerance and even embrace of 9/11 theories (and by "Left," Chomsky refers to something much different than what standard American pundits mean by it). That's the only irony I meant.
And for whatever it's worth, I don't necessarily think that Chomsky is guilty of what I'm describing in this post. To the extent I have a view on that, actually, I'd say he isn't, and I wasn't intending in any way to suggest otherwise.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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