Posted on 05/08/2011 5:17:57 PM PDT by nkronos
It would be tempting to call 82-year-old Noam Chomsky a senile old dolt, but the word “senile” connotes an age-related deterioration of one’s faculties. To deteriorate, however, a mind must have at one time shown superior cognitive abilities. Although in fairness Chomsky’s work in linguistics indicates a specialized if arcane brilliance, his political thinking has never evidenced anything but his having the most warped of mental instruments. Hence, senile may be inaccurate and better replaced with “unsurprising” old dolt.
Nothing about his latest opinion, “My Reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s Death,” surprises–that much is certain. Anyone familiar with Chomsky would expect the morally challenged twit to be dissatisfied at American success in ridding the world of a vile terrorist long past his shelf-expiration date, Osama Bin Laden. It would not be Chomsky, after all, had his pose as ultra-rational sage led him to genuine even-handedness. For example, he writes:
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
This obvious sound-bite means to provoke us with its absurdity but not at all the kind of provocation Chomsky would claim. He fancies himself thought-provoking, whereas what he seeks to stir in his reader is mere emotionalism. And he does so in the most dishonest fashion of any Internet troll: by pretending that whoever the analogy to us is in the Bush version of this week’s events–are we Pakistan? Bin Laden was president nor head of state, after all, of any nation–we should react only to the commando raid. As though May 1 happened in a vacuum.
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He’s deranged. His “reasoning” is absurd.
Please show me where you found this piece of crap on the excerpt list.
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Some state should send out a team to take out Chomsky. That might actually have a positive effect in the war on terror.
Only the toxic mentality of a libtard could come up with that moral equivalency.
Chomsky is one reason the the U.S. is the greatest country in the world. Because we don’t grab anti-American nuts like Chomsky and thrown them in the loony bin. If America is such an awful place full of fascist leaders who stop at nothing to murder people who disagree with them, then why is he, Chomsky, still alive? He must realize that any country with real fascist leaders would have snuffed him a long time ago at his first peep against them. It makes good Americans sick to their stomachs to realize they have to put up with garbage like Chomsky or Michael Moore. But that is the price we pay for living in America, the country that tolerates scoundrels like Chomsky who seek to destroy her.
Just how long can you be the so-called greatest nation today & allow many of these types to breath our air?
The true strength of our country is allowing people you despise (Chomsky, Moore) who regularly defecate on their own country, to say and do the things they do. Weak countries do not allow those types to speak. That we do shows how great our country really is.
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