----- Original Message ----- From: Reed Tryte <dttdhmtp at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:01 PM Subject: Re: The Mystery of Hitchens's Mind
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> > Noam Chomsky's repeated assertion that Al Qaeda at
> its worst
> > is no better than American foreign policy on a good
> day.
Actually take a look at the record of both. What has Al Qaeda done to even compare with dropping nuclear bombs on undefended civilian populations? Or backing a genocidal invasion by Indonesia of East Timor. Or bombing peasants societies into dust killing millions, and so on.
Yes they are horrible, no doubt, but to realize that they are is not to justify the killing of innocent people who are Al Qaeda's victims just as much as those that died in the WTC.
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> Shouldn't this be "Chomsky's repeated assertion that
> Al Queda at its worst is no WORSE than American
> foreign policy"?
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> All these are just bad writing. The rest of the column
> is full of egregious misrepresentation and sloppy
> thinking. If Chomsky has repeatedly asserted that, for
> instance, why not quote his actual words?
Well your right, of course. Hitchens has it in for Chomsky because Chomsky made him look like a fool on more than a few occasions. See NC's response to Hitchens found on the Z homepage. -Tony
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