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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>"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."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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</FONT><FONT
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