Afghan bombing bigger crime than US terror attacks: Noam Chomsky

Yahoo (Singapore) ^ | November 11, 2001

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The bombing of Afghanistan is a greater crime than the September 11 US terror attacks, noted American social critic and philosopher Noam Chomsky told an Indian audience.

Chomsky, who participated in a seminar on "September 11 and its aftermath: Where is the world heading?" in the southern state of Madras, said the western approach to the Afghan conflict was both "shortsighted" and "catastrophic."

"The United States is an indicted terrorist state," Chomsky told a large audience at Madras city's Music Hall.

Chomsky said the US had committed several acts of aggression against other nations and frequently violated all canons of international law. He said it had no moral right to be a critic of terrorism having committed the same crimes.

"The US had trained groups of terrorists to overthrow governments found to be inconvenient to its interests and replace them with its own lackeys," said Chomsky.

He added that the US did not bother to get the sanction of the UN Security Council for its war on Afghanistan.

He also said that globalisation "as passionately promoted" by the western world and "some institutions" only led to a further divide between the haves and have-nots.

The American social critic added that "the US hegemony" had increased with the collapse of the Soviet Union and a unipolar world.

Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has written 30 books dissecting such issues as US interventionism in the developing world and the political economy of human rights.

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Aid and comfort?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Noam Chomsky is a bigger war criminal than Henry Kissinger.

[Brett66]

Evil pr*ck!

[drstevej]

Repeal Tenure. Make these clowns work for a living.

[Frank_2001]

Noam Chomsky=Idiot (This article needs a MEGA-Barf alert;)

[WOSG]

Noam Chomsky is a bigger war criminal than Henry Kissinger.

Good one! ... Noam was an apologist for Pol Pot and his genocide. AN EVIL ANTI-AMERICAN PRO-COMMUNIST SYMPATHYZER and TOTALLY WRONG MAN.

[NativeNewYorker]

Afghanistan is the back side of the moon populated by folks with a medieval epistemology.

The notion that ANYTHING happening there is "catastrophic" in any sense other than that involving the poor wretches fated to dwell there is so absurd that one must question Noam's sanity.

[stevem]

There is so much raving in this work it's impossible to know where to begin, so I won't I won't except to ask why is it that Chomsky can't ever be somewhere like the WTC when the terrorists strike? It would sure help slow the distribution of carbon dioxide.

[sinkspur]

Get a rope. I'll met you at the airport when this SOB walks off the plane.

[zip]

Come on, sarcasm. Where's the Barf Alert? No IQ ooops, that's Noam is a perfect example of Anti American Professors, teachers, et al that we have allowed to rule ALL levels of academia. It's time to reclaim the schools from these pinkos.

[SpencerRoane]

Chomsky has become a parody of himself.

[undergroundwarrior]

Chomsky should move to France. Why does such a dirtbag remain in this contry?? He hates America so much.

[Timesink]

Ya know, a while back this would really have infuriated me. But since 9/11, so many people have come over to our way of thinking that this guy is the utter definition of "marginalized" now. Nobody cares what he thinks. 90% of those that did now hate him as much as we do.

Thanks to Almighty Tenure, he'll never lose his job, but he's lost almost all of his influence. And in such a short time!

[wooly_mammoth]

his latest lecture

Chomsky is better when you listen to the original.

[ken21]

so much for "intellectuals".

[wooly_mammoth]

Making specific death threats against Jewish Institute Professors at MIT is bad for your health. Not to mention it being a felony.

[SuziQ]

My suggestion to Noam Chomsky is STAY THE HELL IN INDIA if the US so offends his seemingly tender sensibilities!!

[zip]

OKay. How is it better? Maybe my audio is skewed way too far to the right to figure out his insane pronoucements.

[vannrox]

It sounds like he is giving comfort to the enemy.

[madrastex]

A friend of mine refer to these professors as Academia nuts.That is far more polite than I can be!