"Those who have charged Chomsky with offering apologetics for Pol Pot or Khomeini or Hussein or Hamas or Milosevic were only partly right. By implication he did offer such apologies, through his questioning of all criticism of these murderers, and through his likening of their murderous regimes to the policies of the U.S. But this was always indirect. Chomsky has never really said what he actually, really supports. About this he has allowed his readers to wonder."
Never said what he actually supports? Seems like I've read Chomsky's response to this in the past was always that he believed that people should always focus on issues and instutions that they can have an effect on. This seems entirely reasonable. It is somewhat bizarre that mainline feminist in the United States could change US foreign policy on the issue on the Taleban, like they apparently did very sucessfully in 1996 (not that this was a waste), but appear to have never have done anything substantive with the issues of working class women in the US or in the Maquiladores along the border. This is hardly a new criticism, I know. Robert Mahaney
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