Chomsky: 'Controlling the oil in Iraq puts America in a strong position...

Given the impossibly high praise lavished upon him - "One of the finest minds of the twentieth century" (The New Yorker); "Arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times) - it is hard to know what to expect when Noam Chomsky enters the room, a beam of pure white light perhaps, or at least the regal swish of academic royalty. Or the whiff of sulphur. He has also been called a man with a "deep contempt for the truth" (The Anti-Chomsky Reader) and an appeaser of Islamic fascism (Christopher Hitchens), among some of the milder criticism.

So it is a surprise when a smiling, slightly stooped man with a diffident air strolls into his office in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, pours himself a coffee and apologises for keeping me waiting.

As has often been remarked, Professor Chomsky is modesty personified, quietly spoken and generous with his time, diligently answering the thousands of e-mails sent to him every week, a laborious task that eats up seven hours a day; usually signing off simply with "Noam". "He recognises no hierarchies," says Chomsky's long-time assistant, Bev Stohl. "He is what people who love him say he is, a man who cares deeply for others."
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"This is how it has been since 9/11," he says. "That had a complex effect on the US which I don't think is appreciated abroad. The picture is that it turned everyone into flag-waving maniacs, and that is just nonsense. It opened people's minds and made a lot of people think, 'I'd better figure out what our role is and why these things are happening'."....

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=603991

"At 76, and despite a recent struggle with cancer, Chomsky seems to have increased his prodigious output."

I sure hope he is cured....

i hope they comment on this article :evilgrin:

hitchens just exposed himself as a fool - as well as many other commentators on our times - since 9/11

as did the Vietnamese proved once again to the 'masters', there are limits to power, even military.

how much blood and treasure will it costs us this time?

peace

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how many b52's were 'they' flying?

do you know how many Americans are living in poverty?
do you know how many here are working for minimum wage?
have you ever driven through some of our cities urban areas?

we Americans, as the French and Japanese before us, found out that you can't bomb your way to power.

why did we kill 3 million Vietnamese?

peace