Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/16/2011 1:32 PM, cfabel wrote:
> On its current trajectory, it will topple itself.

Like the Roman Empire, though Gibbon blamed Christianity,  which in any 
event assumed whatever political authority there was to be for a few 
centuries.

One powerful institution replaces another.

P




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> Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden
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>   Paul Mackin wrote:
>> I advise making the best of the empire we have now  because to topple
>> it would require an even more powerful and bloody one.
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> as they used to say in The Mother Earth News before a timely quote on the
> last page, "Let the men and women of wisdom speak!"
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