<HTML>In a message dated 6/18/2002 6:45:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, delong@econ.Berkeley.EDU writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Can you give me an alternative interpretation of Chomsky's final paragraph--why in God's name he wrote it? Brad DeLong </BLOCKQUOTE> What for?  Seems you have made up your mind.  The bottom line of this discussion is, to paraphrase Doug, to discredit any of Chomsky's work by painting him as an Anti-Semite/Self hating Jew/ holocaust denier.  It won't work for anybody who has read or listened to Chomsky. Sergio</HTML>