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Chomsky: An Attack On Syria Without UN Support Is A War Crime
foxnews.com ^ | September 02, 2013

Posted on 09/02/2013 8:23:02 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Professor Noam Chomsky says even with congressional approval, an attack on Syria without UN support is a war crime.

“As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world,” Chomsky told HuffPost in an email.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; lebanon; maheralassad; noamchomsky; paleochomsky; paleocon; potassiumfluoride; russia; sarin; sodiumfluoride; syria; thebrotherdidit; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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1 posted on 09/02/2013 8:23:02 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

PeeWee Herman is on notice. “No big tent for you!”


2 posted on 09/02/2013 8:24:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Left meets right.


3 posted on 09/02/2013 8:24:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Ok, Calypso Louis, Grayson, now Chomsky, we’ve officially hit the trifecta.

But despite my opposition to the bombing...Screw the UN, just the same.


4 posted on 09/02/2013 8:24:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tailgunner Joe

being Noam Chomsky is a war crime

Old Noam is overdue for his close encounter with a speeding bus


5 posted on 09/02/2013 8:24:55 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Tailgunner Joe

and the UN would magically transform this ‘war crime’ into a sanctified thing of great Beauty, or what?

no, the UN is not holy nor does it have Divine powers. Rather, it is like a new, debased Midas...who turns everything it touches into sh*t


6 posted on 09/02/2013 8:28:00 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (E)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I gotta agree with the old quantitative linquist slash marxist on this one.


7 posted on 09/02/2013 8:34:53 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Ruh-roh. When you've lost Gnome Chumpsky, you got troubles.

Good thing for Soetoro Saul Alinksy is dead.

Somebody should ping George Soros and see what he thinks of all this. Is he happy with what his money is buying?

8 posted on 09/02/2013 8:35:17 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Darksheare

Ping.


9 posted on 09/02/2013 8:36:47 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

“Reading Noam Chomsky is like passing a bladder stone. A lot of angst, a lot of wiggling, pulsing anguish, and in the end producing nothing useful to anyone.”


10 posted on 09/02/2013 8:41:02 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: faithhopecharity

Send all UN personnel packing and get Trump to build another tower.


11 posted on 09/02/2013 8:49:34 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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Chomsky: An Attack On UN Without Syrian Support Is A War Crime


12 posted on 09/02/2013 9:19:01 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (we're the Beatniks now)
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To: Paladin2
Now don't go making me feel sorry for the Rodeo Clown.

Slapped myself! There. All better.

13 posted on 09/02/2013 9:33:47 PM PDT by CT (Obama is the product of a shiftless press, LoFoVo, and the conquest of Soviet style public education)
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To: LeoWindhorse

That Chomsky is alive is testimony that conservatism isn’t a violent ideology. If he were on the other side of Bill Ayers, he may have been bombed.


14 posted on 09/02/2013 9:35:25 PM PDT by CT (Obama is the product of a shiftless press, LoFoVo, and the conquest of Soviet style public education)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yep, the voice of the anti-American left is getting around these days.


15 posted on 09/02/2013 9:46:12 PM PDT by familyop
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To: dfwgator

Chumpsky is our boy, ain’t he?!


16 posted on 09/02/2013 9:47:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Chomsky says, "aggression without UN authorization would be a war crime" which is, of course, nothing more than a tautology. In the quotation (in which emphasis was supplied) it is not surprising that Chomsky, the linguist, plays a word game. "Aggression" with UN authorization would also be a war crime.

If he meant to say that military action without UN authorization would be a war crime, that is to deny the sovereignty of the United States and to defy the United States Constitution which vests the power to declare war with the Congress, the responsibility to pay for the war with Congress, and the power to conduct the war with the president. The Constitution does not bring the United Nations into the process and to do so distorts the Constitution. Those powers vested as they are in the Article I and Article II branches of the American government are vested solely in these branches and it is unconstitutional to divest any portion of them and put it in any other entity such as United Nations, especially an entity which is not even American.


17 posted on 09/02/2013 10:28:57 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Chomsky is a moron. The US does not and never has needed
the permission of the UN or ANY OTHER GROUP besides Congress to take military action.
The ONLY group that can legally authorize this country to
go to war is Congress....and they have abstained from doing their duty for many many years now.


18 posted on 09/02/2013 10:29:43 PM PDT by nvscanman
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Hmm, well, I suppose if a President were to get UN sanction and international support, then it would be OK, right? Good to see Chomsky defending Bush, I didn't know he had it in him.

The old git would probably take a swing at me for suggesting it, though. But I do agree that if 0bama starts lobbing missiles into Syria with no more formality than he has already taken precious golfing time to follow, then he is certainly in contravention to the Constitution and, for whatever it is worth, international law as well. That his current actions show his earlier sanctimony against Bush's policies to be the expedient hypocrisy that they were is sweet but purely incidental. This is war, people are going to die, and I'd like to think it were over something more significant than empty posturing.

19 posted on 09/02/2013 10:42:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Paladin2

I like these left meets right moments. If we have enough of them, smart political operators might figure out how to blend the two into one party that could win elections and represent smart, thinking people who are fed up with media-hyped destruction of our country.

But think of the infighting. Too bad.


20 posted on 09/02/2013 10:52:37 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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