> ... The suggestion is Chomsky played in the hands of the right ("my
> statement was not written as a preface to the book, which I did not
> know existed, and that I asked to have it withdrawn, though too late
> to affect publication a few weeks after I wrote it"), which he himself
> regret now.
Nonsense. Chomsky was being consistent on an elementary principle of free speech (as he said at the time, "I thought these matters had been decided in the Enlightenment..."), which some invent tortuous rationales for setting aside (if from the best motives). --CGE