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To: Thomas M. who wrote (6413)	10/10/2001 3:04:27 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Yeah... but notice how Chomsky is keeping his mouth shut with regard to criticizing OBL, except for calling this an atrocity... In fact, he and OBL have a lot in common since they both believe the root of all evil resides in the US. He'll never be able to accept the fact that there are greater evils in existence out there than the US... Folks with far more sinister agendas. Hawk

To: Thomas M. who wrote (6413)	10/11/2001 7:27:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Hitchens does a much more effective shredding job on Chomsky's pitying condescention and half-truths. Chomsky wrote: "That Hitchens cannot mean what he writes is clear, in the first place, from his reference to the bombing of the Sudan. He must be unaware that he is expressing such racist contempt for African victims of a terrorist crime, and cannot intend what his words imply. This single atrocity destroyed half the pharmaceutical supplies of a poor African country and the facilities for replenishing them, with an enormous human toll. Hitchens is outraged that I compared this atrocity to what I called "the wickedness and awesome cruelty" of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 (quoting Robert Fisk), adding that the actual toll in the Sudan case can only be surmised, because the US blocked any UN inquiry and few were interested enough to pursue the matter. That the toll is dreadful is hardly in doubt." [my own comments: "Moral obtuseness" is far too mild a term for someone who thinks that bombing a factory in the middle of the night is somehow WORSE than destroying skyscrapers with 50,000 people in them during working hours. Oh I forget. America did it, so it has to be worse.] Hitchens replies: "Noam Chomsky does not rise much above the level of half-truth in his comparison of the September 11 atrocities to Clinton's rocketing of Sudan. Since his remarks are directed at me, I'll instance a less-than-half-truth as he applies it to myself. I "must be unaware," he writes, that I "express such racist contempt for African victims of a terrorist crime." With his pitying tone of condescension, and his insertion of a deniable but particularly objectionable innuendo, I regret to say that Chomsky displays what have lately become his hallmarks. " continued at: thenation.com David Horowitz has recently written a proper two-part review of the Chomsky method of history, which I know you'll enjoy: "The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky Salon.com \| September 26, 2001 WITHOUT QUESTION, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation’s grave crisis – the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America’s right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist" anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among the demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training grounds; and wherever young people manifest an otherwise incomprehensible rage against their country, the inspirer of their loathing and the instructor of their hate is most likely this man. " frontpagemag.com frontpagemag.com