Chomsky/Hitchens/Milosevic/Bush

[Carvill John]

Absolutely agree. And to be fair to Chomsky, yes he has made an ass of himself, and permanently, significantly dented his reputation, but in many ways his supporters and fans (and 'fan' as in fanatic is teh right word) have made an even bigger mistake, and made even bigger assses of themselves, because where Chomsky has got it wrong by trying to shoehorn Bosnia into his 'one size fits all' worldview, his fans have no real worldview at all, they just dance along behind Chomsky as if he was some sort of Pied Piper, and what's even more tragic is that they actually feel smug about it, y'know, "we read Chomsky, which means we heap big Leftist Intellectuals...."
 
BUt yeah, Hitchens, you have to wonder - what happened, man? He has gone off teh deep end. Still, even at this stage, he has the nous to suss the Milosevic apologists for what they are, and that's something you cannot say for Chomsky, Pilger, Harold Pinter, etc.
 
 
 
>Joseph Tracy wrote:
 
> First I have read and listened to a fair amount of Chomsky and I  
> think you are right  that he forced the Balkan wars into his all  
> purpose (and mostly correct) analysis of US as the world's biggest  
> imperial bully and falsified the picture in Bosnia. But everyone I  
> know with strong opinions on many complex topics occasionally gets  
> it wrong and that undermines their credibility, whereas people who  
> are full of it are always full of it and never seem to be  
> permanently discredited. Nato or the UN should have intervened  
> earlier and the US should have pushed in a democratic way for  
> that.  but 9 out of 10 imilitary interventions have shitty reasons  
> and shitty consequences. Hitchens wrote a great examination of  
> Kissinger and has been a blowhard ever since. He says this shit  
> about the left supporting fascists and ends up neck deep in  real  
> fascist gore.  According to Hitchens the world should now be  a  
> much more reasonable and peaceable place with great "Western"  
> economies now that we have killed over a million muslims. So what  
> happened?
>
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