And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic (the war in Iraq) and on the manufacturing of public opinion is Noam Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior to the war, but the leader of Texas doesn't like those who give advice ... Osama bin Laden, in his recent videotaped speech.
In between his denunciation of capitalism and his request for Americans to convert to Islam, maniacal killer Osama bin Laden took time to praise MIT professor and extreme-left author Noam Chomsky.
Chomsky is accustomed to being on the wrong side of history. As an apologist for the post-fall-of-Saigon Vietnamese communist regime in the 1970s, as well as for the even more heinous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Chomsky fell out of favor with all but the most extreme denizens on the left-hand side of the dial.
Like a warped Tiny Tim record
, Chomsky was essentially packed off in a storage locker, to be taken out on those rare occasions, if any, he needed to be heard from. Instances like "Sixties Day" at the local high school, for example.
But September 11 changed a lot of things, and a revival of Chomsky's popularity was one of the ramifications of that terrible day.
Not terrible to Bin Laden, however.
As for Chomsky, when his next book comes out, will it include Osama's "endorsement" of him on the dust cover?
About the book Failed States.
No, I haven't read it, but it's not about the failed states that dominate a certain part of the world--I'm speaking of the Middle East and in particular the Arab nations.With a couple of exceptions, they're all failed states.
Oh, is Bin Laden aware that Noam Chomsky is Jewish? Of course some Jews would argue that point.
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