Professor Noam Chomsky addresses American foreign policy

The Daily Collegian ^ | 2/25/04 | Yousef Munayyer

[SpinyNorman]

What can I say? Chomsky the commie is greeted with open arms at the campus of UMASS Amherst (Berkeley East). Brainwashing anyone?

[Torie]

Chomsky's ideal foreign policy was not explicated in this article. His ideal foreign policy would make interesting reading, if only as a point of departure about what NOT to do. The article sucks. It is devoid of content; it's the null set.

[WorkingClassFilth]

No, Noam, the truth is that...

"We like [the Third World] to have socialism assisted by the communist bloc nations," said Professor Noam Chomsky, referring to the old Soviet Union. "As long as the do what we, er, they say."

Until you come to grips with your perpetual erection for communism, you can shove it.

[RightOnline]

F**k Chomsky. I'd have boo-ed his sorry little Commie butt off the stage.

I........and many hundreds of thousands like me.........served in the Armed Forces to stand against the forces of Communism (his darlings) so that this little loudmouthed prick can preen onstage at a droolingly liberal university and spout his long-discredited crap without being shot.

Those in attendance who clapped and oohed and aaahed and kissed his wrinkled ass should be ashamed to call themselves Americans.

Time to flush this piece of excrement.

[jdege]

"Forced imposition of market principles in countries that are militarily controlled is basically what created the Third World," he said referring to Iraq today and many other nations in the past.

Odd. I thought every country was "Third World" until Italy and the Netherlands learned how to make market capitalism work...

[Seeking the truth]

Didn't Chomsky predict 4,000,000 Iraqi deaths if we invade? I know I read that somewhere here on FR.

[Paleo Conservative]

If I saw him, I'd give him a one-finger salute.

[general_re]

Chomsky's ideal foreign policy was not explicated in this article.

I don't think Chomsky offers much in the way of an ideal foreign policy any more. The last time I can recall him actually advocating a position - Cambodia - instead of sniping at someone else's, the result was a good deal of embarrassment. For his fellow travelers, of course, not the shameless Chomsky, who to this day insists that he didn't say what he said and didn't mean it that way anyway.

[squarebarb]

Chomsky's brain has been fried by hate. He'll say anything that pops into his pork-skin brain.

The Third World has been created by imposed free market principles in military-controlled states???

I could faint.

[FreedomPoster]

I wish you wouldn't hold back so much when excoriating these extreme Leftist scum.

[Conservababe]

I am surprised that this old goat is taken seriously, any longer. But, come to think of it, sometimes I do hear a college freshman on the talk shows who has just discovered him. LOL

[Schattie]

Why does anyone listen to this idiot anymore?

[Shermy]

The last time I can recall him actually advocating a position

He has none except to proffer his usual laundry list of vague innuendos. Tactically he practically invented the labelling of American policy as "Nazi." Kissinger is another fave.

I looked though his latest books at a store. 'Nary a mention about Saudi or Iran or Iraq or Osama's motives, just Israel and Nicaragua and his usual routine. He has spoken about Iraq in the past, but faces the lefty quandry. If he opines about the years of sanctions, no fly zones, Saddam's snubs, "1,000,000 dead Iraqi babies" libel and so on his listeners would be inclined to think about Iraq as a long process of involvement, a long war, rather than the party line now espoused: Bush picked Iraq out of the blue.

He's preaching to the choir and making a bundle off them.

[FairOpinion]

Someone should ask Kerry, what does he think about Chomsky's approach. I bet Kerry agrees with him.

[Afro_conservative]

This guy is an asshole. Why does he make it seem as if this country is so horrible yet continues to sell his crappy books and live here? Because he and the rest of these leftist poop heads are hypocrites.

[Hostile]

You know, Mr "There was no Cambodian massacre" is a linguistics professor. Exactly what are his qualifications to speak on foreign policy? A vivid imagination, I guess.

[Michael.SF.]

I bet Kerry agrees with him.

But Kerry is smart enough to never admit that he does.

[Michael.SF.]

"One fundamental truism we must answer to is, are we or are we not going to apply the standards we apply to others to ourselves?" Chomsky said

And would you also apply that 'truism' to the Democrats, Mr. Chomsky?

[Tamzee]

"It is hard to think of two speakers more different than Rudy Giuliani and Noam Chomsky. While Mayor Giuliani was busy consoling America after the horrific attacks of Sept. 11, Professor Chomsky, an M.I.T. linguist, spent his time blaming the U.S. itself for the attacks.
Although the Social Planning and Events Committee should be commended for sponsoring a variety of speakers, it is important that people know when a speaker conveys messages of discrimination and distortion."

"Yesterday at Irvine Auditorium, Chomsky became the first person to sign a petition to call for the University divestment from Israel, following a speech in which he compared the United States to a totalitarian dictatorship."

"But Chomsky’s bizarre and extreme views should be no surprise. Several years ago, he wrote an approving introduction to a vile book by the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson, in which Faurisson claimed that the Jews were responsible for World War II, denied that Anne Frank ever existed and argued that there were never any Nazi death camps in Europe."

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[Stallone]

Funny, not a single contradictory or opposing view on the man in the entire article.

Too bad this intrepid reporter didn't contact anyone other than slavish cult followers to concoct his love letter.

Socialists are evil thugs who need to be destroyed at every turn.