Chomsky nails it

[Joseph Tracy]

The problem is that your question is phrased so that documented killings  of non combatants are not facts but something that someone "feels".  I know people from Gaza through my activities as a Quaker and I certainly do feel kinship .  Many were killed in Gaza. It wasn't a feeling.  ( I also feel sympathy and kinship with my Israeli friends over the years and with the victims of 9-11, but using national armies  in patterns that humiliate and do violence to those who committed no crimes is not a proper way to address human suffering or injuries to ourselves.)
Also if you were asking a question of people not participating, how were they to answer? I was answering as the theoretical "you" to show how such a you might react, and part of my point is that the rhetorical structure of your original question is loaded so that it becomes a question about feelings and theoretical entities( your people, the US) rather than what is being done to humans. 

If Chomsky is failing by being too distanced from human realities, then neither you or Mackin is doing any better. 
On May 20, 2011, at 12:27 AM, Jed Kelestron wrote:

> "You" meant Afghans, Palestinians, et al.
> 
> I really don't think the US and her allies are killing your people.
> 
> Tracy is Irish, no?
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> J K said
>> If you feel your people are being killed unjustly by the US and her
>> allies, and you know the US feels justified, what is the best course
>> of action?
>> On May 19, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Jed Kelestron wrote:
>> 
>> Whoa. Calm down there Joe. I'm really not concerned about whether my
>> questions have anything to do with what you feel.
>> 
>> Then you shouldn't start your question with the words "if you feel" in
>> response to my post.