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To: Thomas M. who wrote (4690)	9/26/2001 2:54:34 AM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 23908

The main problem with Chomsky's pysche, I think, is that he's never held a real job, where he had to make a tough life-or-death decision. Therefore, he is free to criticize others without ever creating a track record of his own.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4690)	9/26/2001 10:01:24 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Actually, I don't consider Hitchen's article a discusson about the Chomsky "haters"... In fact, I considered it to be a tongue in cheek critic's review of Chomsky "original thinking": "Who among them [leaders of the antiwar movement] has been willing to suggest that the murder of a million or more Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge might have been averted if American military force had not been removed from Indochina? If any of them spoke out this way, I missed it. But I did hear Noam Chomsky seek to prove the Cambodian genocide hadn't happened. (Fred Barnes, Senior Editor, The New Republic, April 29, 1985)" Nor was this all. Without digging very much further, I found that the London Spectator had just published an article by Richard West on September 29, 1984, which lustily indicted the Communists and their apologists in the West like the odious Noam Chomsky. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia and let the world see the proof and magnitude of the Khmer Rouge crime, the Chomskys were able to turn to Sideshow for an explanation: the Khmer Rouge were the creation of Nixon and Kissinger. The atrocities in Cambodia were used to justify not only the Vietnamese invasion but their remaining as an occupying power." Ya know something Thomas... I can handle leftist thinkers... I can handle someone with a different perspective than my own, no matter how much I disagree with them... But I CAN'T HANDLE someone like you, or Chomsky, who I believe have become intellectually dishonest, if not bankrupt, in their quest for being considered "original thinkers".. Being an original thinker must go far beyond trying to convince the world that they sky isn't a shade of blue, or that only the US is responsible for the oppression/repression around the world... Being an original thinker (which is rather difficult to be these days) means looking at a situation from a unique perspective that takes into account all possible datum.... It is not defined as engaging in the politics of denial, merely because it doesn't fit your preconceived agenda, or destroys the basis for your argument... I'm in a different situation here... You see, I can accept that brutality has been advanced by all political sides, including certain Americans in the name of the US.. But I have the comfort that knowing the US form of government is far superior than the majority of institutions in existence. Because while I know that the fraility and corruption of human kind will result in actions that don't best reflect our values. But I don't get caught up in that because they are both, an anomaly, as well as quite comparable to what other non-democratic governments would have advanced. I have the "comfort" of knowing that, no matter how corrupt US policy might become, it will NEVER exceed the OUTRIGHT BRUTALITY of a totalitarian regime which knows NO LIMITS, and recognizes NO HUMAN RIGHTS. And that's what the left has been advancing for decades... the creation of totalitarian regimes where power is centralized and people disenfranchised and dominated by a government that "knows best", but really represent power being centralized in the hands of a few fallible, power mad, and greedy individuals. Hawkmoon