Chomsky nails it

[Mark Kohut]

this is a perfect example of how Chomsky judges without even listening or 
seeing....

Under his definition of 'violence' , no nation escapes whipping, as Hamlet would 
say.

Obama spoke of the need for no violence from all sides...(Of course, since we 
are committing some in supposedly defending ourselves,
Chomsky can condemn as if moral equivalence is another hypocrisy).

Hamas wants to be at the negotiating table with a nation that they declare 
should not exist and want to destroy. And that is the same as
Israel "occupying" Palestinian lands....not.

Once again, as I said when Chomsky spoke as if THE TALIBAN were to be 
believed--they offered to 'turn bin Laden over w evidence--- over any other 
country, Chomsky sides here with self-proclaimed terrorist 
organizations---Hamas, The Muslim Brotherhood--- as morally equal to nation 
states subjecting themselves to internatioanl law at least....

Wrong again. Very wrong. 




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From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 12:55:32 PM
Subject: Chomsky nails it

A headline from Democracy Now

President Obama is scheduled to deliver an address today billed by aides as his 
most important on the Middle East since his speech in Cairo in June 2009. Obama 
is expected to announce billions of dollars in aid for Egypt and Tunisia 
following criticism of U.S. support for both countries’ former long-term heads 
of state. A U.S. official said Obama will announce "a single standard," 
including the renunciation of violence for groups including Hamas, the Muslim 
Brotherhood and others seeking engagement with the United States. In response, 
the MIT linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky said: "It follows that the 
U.S. will no longer engage with Israel, which has long relied on violence to 
impose its will and has highly discriminatory laws and practices targeting 
[Palestinians]. And the U.S. will not engage with itself, given its longstanding 
commitment to violence to impose the domestic arrangements of its choice, 
including political change. Since Obama doesn’t mean that, the 'single standard' 
is just more of the familiar deceptive rhetoric."

This is the essence of the Chomsky critique; simply reverse the stated standard 
of behavior and apply it to those in power. Not sophisticated, not reliant on 
obscure philosophical premises- just good old fashioned do what you say. 
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