Posted on 11/11/2001 4:56:37 PM PST by sarcasm
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.
This guy is a pinko piece of garbage. I wish a big brown bear would stumble upon him and go CHOMPSKY...
You want to spout crap, do it on your own time. Without using the services of the University and access to kids and the PR department and doing it during working hours on somebody elses dime.
I cant go to work dressed like Atom Ant , preaching free love,, so why can this clown do whatever he wants at his place of employment? He's a linguistics professor , for crying out loud! Let him hold seditious press conferences outside of his ratty Boston apartment, if he wants to.
You want to spout crap, do it on your own time.
Says who he doesn't? the man works 8 hour days when he's on vacation.
Let him hold seditious press conferences outside of his ratty Boston apartment, if he wants to.
Wasn't this article talking about speaking engagements in India?
Where in the Constitution does it state that the government of the United States of America needs the permission of the friggen UN Security Council to protect it's citizens from terrorists, or to do anything else? I don't recall voting for the members of the UN Security Council, so how do they represent me??
If this a$$hole thinks America is so bad why doesn't the traitor stay overseas in some nice country like, Iraq? I'm sure he would fit right in there.
You're not going to seriously argue that Chomsky doesnt use University resources to propagate and support his "other" activities, are you?
It might interest you to know that when an employee of U of Minnesota (a men's sport coach) was found using a college Xerox machine in order to spread his view that Title IX implementation was unfair, he was suspended. Now compare that with some of Chomsky's activities (his numerous press conferences at the college and so on). Freedom of opinion is allowed , but only some opinion, of course..
Getting rid of tenure will help enforce college rules against all instructors, not just the "untenured".
Oh yea? And if Mr Treason didn't have tenure he might have been forced out of the Massachusetts "Institute of Technology" years ago. You know, by the people who pay his f*ing salary, for example.
They seem to perceive cleverness or even 'brilliance' in the man.
No , it's meant to insulate slackers from the forces of the marketplace.
Why should 60 yr old has-been "proffessors" be allowed to hand off their teaching duties to foreign TA's while they tool around campus fishing for young coeds and expanding on their useless irrelevant "social theories" and related brickbat, all on the nickel ofthe poor parent who incidentally might be putting out 40 K a yr for a questionable "credential"
Theres several things that can be done to "fix" the college campus, but I say we start with forcing teachers to survive in a competitive environment, like much of the rest of us.
BTW, tenure probably will go eventually. Just not soon enough to get rid of that execrable moron, Noam Chomsky, expert on society and politics and government and every dam* thing you could possibly think of.
As in anti American traitor.
Well there's publish or perish. But something tells me you're not in academe, or have only been reading about it. Its probably just as corrupt as corporate america.
all on the nickel ofthe poor parent who incidentally might be putting out 40 K a yr for a questionable "credential"
40K a yr for a questionable credential? these people need some "market adjustment". those parents are just plain stupid.
Hey! He can't use that word!
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