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I accidentally got roped into reading Chomsky - half way through his book I realized he was a whacked out statist. Isn't Michael Moore a disciple of his. Chomsky obviously has an agenda, to return us to the radical days of the socialist vision for the world. Goes to show that America can easily be linked to all the world's troubles if you have a troubled enough mind like Chomsky. I also, after reading The Great Crash, got roped into reading Sir Kenneth Galbraith - another lover of big government. Although he is more the Keynesian big picture kind of guy, while Chomsky is the social revolutionary.

The trouble with dealing with people like Chomsky is that there is some truth or at least some facts he has right. Meaning American policy is not and has never been perfect. Lots of mistakes have been made. For instance perhaps the Nazis and Communists should have been left to kill each other off. FDR was hoodwinked by Stalin, let his guard done, and lost nuclear secrets to Stalin. The draft was wrong. Whether the Vietnam war was right or not is another issue. But Chomsky hides his true self by targeting all the nasty things the US has done. He is not primarily against the ACTIONS of the US. Ultimately he is against what the United States stands for as a republic. This he will never admit.

I've read Atlas shrugged. I can't remember that character.

Bertrand Russel was the author of many college philosophy textbooks taught during the 1960's. He was considered to be the most influential academic philosopher of his day. Ayn Rand attacked Russel in "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution".

Chomsky gave a lecture in Seattle recently were he critiqued Clinton's war over Kosovo. The ideas expressed would have fit right in with many discussions here on FreeRepublic.