by Tina Grazier
Yesterday a very negative and cynical Noam Chomsky had the usual Hate America First and Always response on the day of the 911 commemoration. In an interview with the Japanese newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, he said President Bush was an ally of bin Ladin and Ahmadinijad. I find this fascinating since the recent tapes by bin Laden were filled with what amounts to leftist or democrat talking points. I think old Noam looked in a mirror and saw GWB looking back. A few Chomsky thoughts:
predicted directly after 9/11 that governments would use the attacks “as an excuse” to intensify repression.
the invasion of Iraq was a war crime.
the U.S. bombed Taliban-ruled Afghanistan after 9/11 despite having no real evidence at the time that the plot had been hatched in that country.
while Afghanistan today needs constructive help, including offers of alternatives to poppy cultivation by peasants, “what the West prefers to do is to bomb.”
“the United States is not a functioning democracy.”
WHAT A PATRIOT, HUH?
OUR COUNTRY WAS SET UP AS A REPUBLIC so he can have the last one! The rest however are bird droppings… insidious machinations designed to feed the Moore-on types brimming with juvenile petulance.
Chomsky is supposedly a bright guy, an MIT professor. But he sure has an ignorant view of eventsor, an unrelenting overt agenda to destroy our country. In this respect he qualifies as Osamas ally. But dont take my word for ittry Osama’s:
“This war [in Iraq] was entirely unnecessary,” bin Laden said in the video, according to the transcript released by the SITE Institute. “And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic 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.”
I dont knowthat sounds an awful lot to me like Osama thinks old Noam is his BUD! Birds of a feather…ALLIES in the war to destroy America!
Perhaps just to keep myself from blowing chunks on the keyboard I looked for another, very American, point of view and I found a great article, Bin Laden Looks for an Exit Strategy, by Stephen Schwartz on TSC daily:
The enemies of democracy change their uniforms or their vocabulary, and modify their tactics, but they do not change their essential character as haters of liberty and usurpers of power over human beings. Hitler preached peace while committing acts of war; Stalin and his Soviet successors did the same. Both dictators subsidized “peace movements” in the democracies. Both declared their actions were driven by self-defense against Western imperialist aggression; today’s Islamists employ identical phraseology. *** Fascism created strong national states as protective shells for real power held by the party, as Soviet Communism did with its multinational empire. The state itself, as a central modern institution, began disintegrating in the mid-20th century, replaced by the structures of ideology. As was predicted even before World War II, wars between states became obsolete, replaced by wars between foreign ideological forces, disguised as civil wars inside states. Standing armies were challenged by guerrilla armies and then by terrorist conspiracies. Radicalism among Sunni Muslims, which has its most important roots in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, surpassed that country’s borders and became a post-national phenomenon.
. But the tape is a mish-mash of historical gaffes, weird allegations and namedropping, and illiterate iterations of earlier messages. Reading the transcript, can we really believe Osama bin Laden sits and reads Noam Chomsky or obsesses about Richard Perle or imagines what it means for him to endorse the anti-Jewish pamphleteering of Michael Scheuer, the former “expert on Al-Qaida for the Central Intelligence Agency?” (Scheuer should not be pleased.) *** These snippets in the OBL tape were obviously trolled from the internet and thrown together with “clever” gimmicks like the call for Americans to embrace Islam, plus jabs about taxes and the inefficacy of the Democrats. The old and aggressive Islamic idiom found in Bin Laden’s discourse is missing. So is the fire. The tone is that of exhaustion, not exhilaration in jihad.
I believe, six years after 9/11, that Al-Qaida is losing badly in Iraq, and while George W. Bush perseveres with the promise he made to fulfill America’s democratic legacy, Bin Laden is looking for an exit strategy. The Western mainstream media has it backwards; we are winning, the enemy is losing, the war was inevitable and honorable. And the innocents killed on 9/11 will be fully redeemed.
You can read the full article onTCS daily. Find it here:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/Article.aspx?id=091107A