Chomsky on Palestine

[Peter K.]

Carrol:
>experience. Chomsky has since he began to write on Vietnam consistently
>identified one fundamental feature of ideology in the U.S.: The United
>States _never_ intends evil, and that arguments that suggest as much are
>simply not legitimate arguments. Note: _No_ one is apt to admit to

This is complete nonsense. First off, you sound like Shrub with your talk
of "evil." One can tell just from looking at popular culture that people
accept the idea that the U.S. can act like a rogue state. One of the
main points I got from Chomsky was the seemingly-obvious fact
the for whatever reason the culture has a large amount of distraction
so that the masses won't think about politics let alone foreign policy.

I'm wondering if Chomsky has made the analogy of the Bush and
Sharon (US/Israel) being alike and the Palestinians and Al Queda
being alike. The fact of the matter is that the U.S. isn't occupying
Afghanistan and the U.S. has a secular/pluralist state while Israel
is an occupying country that is based on fundamentalist ideas.
Likewise, not all Palestinians are anti-modernist like Al Queda or
the Taliban.

Peter