Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[David Morris]

Amen.
Progressives like Chomsky & Nadar are the liberals that makes liberals
ashamed to admit they're liberals. They give limbaugh an easy "Blame
Amerca First" target.

On Saturday, May 14, 2011, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Chomsky is, like Nader, a giant figure in the American progressive movement who has managed to systematically self-destruct in the
> twilight of his career.
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Chomsky argues as if HIS language for things is just like his 'discovery' that
>> language is inherent in the mind. Once you've named Imperialism, it's always
>> there,
>> even when we pull away (from some countries, from some policies, from a lying
>> hidden
>> country-conquering foreign policy)
>>
>> His linguistics is being challenged as being far more subtle and nurture-related
>> than
>>
>> Chomsky's hard Platonism seems to allow.
>>
>> Chomsky writes:
>> ..."to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence—which, as we
>> soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said,
>> in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks
>> were carried out by al Qaeda."
>>
>> Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden’s
>> “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston
>> Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement."
>>
>>
>>
>> This, to me, is detestable. Grunt workers who had been tracking Bin Laden for
>> years KNEW he had done it as soon as it happened. (One young writer I know, had
>> requested thru State to interview him in 1997. Disallowed) CHOMSKY thinks that
>> the US should have turned over EVIDENCE---what would count as evidence for the
>> Taliban? Even IF you think we should never have challenged the Taliban with a
>> war, why, how, could we have believed their words? Look what they did, rulingly,
>> as policy within their own country? Give them the EVIDENCE we have? when people
>> with eyes in both--all--- parties, even Libertarian, thought there was more than
>> the usual reasons for distrust, for believing that if (since?) they were
>> harboring OBL, he would get that info?  From Orwell, thru Pynchon, thru Buckley,
>> Mailer or Vidal, I cannot believe ANY of them would but laugh at Chomsky's
>> notion of turning over such evidence?
>>
>> (A...and, I will bet you we did show them something....Did the Taliban demand a
>> trial at the Hague?---say they would turn him over for THAT?)
>>
>> And, goes his brain-damaged, lingusitics-challenged logic, because we WOULD NOT
>> do that, we, the US, had no evidence.????  Think about THAT a moment.
>>
>> Let's see: No, you cannot search my home without a warrant, therefore I MUST be
>> guilty....
>>
>> To call Obama a liar for the truths---not for any policies----that ALL know.
>> Simply Awful To suggest OBL 'just bragged" about all the evil --that no one
>> knows who caused it,--, all Al--Queda's own words and self-praised deeds, to all
>> who have given bits of evidence--even thousands of innocents like the part of
>> bin Laden's family which knew and disowned him---- in that tangled evil web
>> Al--Queda wove.....means Chomsky is BLIND to reality but not his own ideas.
>>
>>
>> Chomsky is a Beckian, Limbaugh mirror of fantasy world 'crazy' here....I say
>> Chomsky is in AGAINST THE DAY, if not in The Recognitions (but we are coming to
>> some stuff related, maybe)
>>
>>
>> O yes, and Tomahawk is NOT like naming our missiles after our victims, such
>> as in that stupid Nazis' analogy...Tomahawk was a weapon of those Native
>> Americans,
>> many tribes of which fought bloody wars against each other with...........
>>
>> Noam, learn how logic is a human 'form of life'....and learn how to think like a
>> human being............
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Michael F <mff8785 at gmail.com>
>> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> Cc: cfabel <cfabel at sfasu.edu>; Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>;
>> "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Fri, May 13, 2011 1:55:34 PM
>> Subject: RE: Noam Chomsky's statem--
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