I have never been fond of linguist and philospher Chomsky of MIT. Americans are sometimes too kind to allow him to continue trashing America. http://onwardjames.blogspot.ca/#!/2013/02/despicable-professor-emeritus-noam.html
Noam Chomsky is a brilliant man and significant contributor to the social sciences. Though I disagree with some of his political perspectives, and his attempt to advance old-school liberal thought by combining it with socialist economics led him to conclusions more radical than my own, his analyses of human rights and international affairs issues usually seem to be a lot better thought-out and less skewed by ethnocentric biases than what is provided courtesy of the mass media.
"Blames America" is hawkese for "critical of Washington's imperialist war policy and the military-industrial complex."
I generally agree with him on foreign policy. What do you mean Americans are too kind to "allow" him to continue speaking his mind? He can say what he likes, it's a free country. The Iraq War: Under any just standard it was a war of aggression to police the world in the Wilsonian tradition. It was also contrary to the constitution in near every way. Assassinating Bin Laden: ehhh, I don't really have a problem with this except insofar as they violated the sovereign land of Pakistan on more than one occasion to catch him. Oh, and it's preferable to catch him alive if only to show the world that the United States holds the ideals of its constitution above its imperialist ambitions: a fair trial would have no doubt resulted in execution anyway, and it would have at least shown the world you can live up to what you're supposedly fighting for. America to blame for the evil in the world: I haven't seen him say this except insofar as America is to blame for the discontent with its empire and the resulting violence. You have your hands so far into the lives of Middle Easterners (since at least the mid 20thC) that you basically choose their leaders. It's a silent form of imperialism, and the people of that region naturally hate you for it. This is exactly what Jefferson was talking about with foreign entanglements. You have no constitutional business in that region. Get out of their affairs and maybe they'll consider getting out of yours. It's incredibly ironic that you overthrew the British only to become Redcoats yourself. Blaming America for 9/11: again, he really doesn't do this. He says that American actions have in part caused 9/11, not that they are responsible - there's a huge difference. Propping up dictators you like and assassinating/inspiring coups for those you don't breeds discontent and allows extremist anti-West movements to take hold. When your son has just been shot dead by a US supported regime you tend to be more likely to support terrorist groups. Of course, these groups are responsible for their actions, but this is a hole you've dug yourself through unconstitutional and progressive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson) foreign adventures. Stop it. Again, he's definitely not right on everything, especially economics, but he makes apt points with regard to foreign policy. He is quite right to point out that your post-Wilson imperialist foreign policy has caused bad (*)(*)(*)(*) to happen - and in part this led to the creation of anti-US terrorist groups, and certainly their funding. People generally dislike foreign rulers who support tyrants who kill their children. Stay out of it like the framers intended.
Why are you relying on sound bites? Why not take his comments in context and dismiss them through evidence if you can because without providing evidence to support your opinions you come off like a blow hard. While I disagree with his work in linguistics I do find he provides critic of foreign policy that is often informative and why shouldn't he criticize the US government it's extremely hypocritical and criminal. Seemingly though he isn't threatening to them. When him and others attempted to challenge the NDAA and Obama Admin they were unsuccessful.
Yes, and I remain in opposition to that. The leaders of my country (who I frequently criticize) do evil stuff. I have no connection to them, I did not vote for them. Not quite sure what you're implying.
Chomsky seems to find fault in most governments in general. His focus on the US and Israel comes in large part from him being an American Jew. On international law he also happens to have a point, the US has countless violations. Probably not the worst though.
I don't know how much of anyone's income is donated to charity, and with all due respect it is completely irrelevant to what I was writing. Nothing in my previous post was implying anything about the man's personality, virtues, vices, etc.
