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To: JohnM who wrote (39697)	4/15/2004 9:55:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793868

However, Hitchens does make the unmistakable case that whatever else that is going on in all these charges about Chomsky, the issues are complicated, extremely vulnerable to political opportunists, and ambiguous in the extreme. Obviously - but contrary to your implication, it starts at the source. Who can deny that Chomskey is political to the nth degree, and fond of what can euphemistically be called an "ambiguous" style, which avoiding direct statements, uses implications and attacks on opposing arguments in to make a case by indirection - one which he can change or deny outright later? As can be seen in the history of statements on the Khmer Rouge, whom he stopped defending at some point, without any acknowledgement of having ever changed his position, much less having been mistaken about them.