> At least now you can acknowledge it... whereas the Chomskys of the world
> still hold that the US gov't was prepared to inflict a "silent genocide"
> upon Afghanistan.
I think Noam and his followers have dropped this one, quietly but firmly, especially since the exact opposite happened. But it was, along with the Sudanese comparison made right after the attacks, one of Noam's clumsier moves.
DP