> He expanded on the statement by claiming
> that
> there was no where else in the world that he could conduct his research
> and speak as freely as he can here: he felt the formal and actual
> freedom of
> expression in the US couldn't be beat. When the interviewer brought up
> other
> countries, he dismissed her/him; he said that while he had a higher
> profile
> in other nations, he found that his criticisms of other nations as
> complicit in
> the crimes of the US were generally elided or omitted when his writings
> appeared elsewhere.
It is perhaps worth noting that question in the NY Times interview to which Chomsky responded with the answer he is being scolded for giving was whether he was considering leaving the country. So perhaps he was saying, "Why should I leave? There isn't another country I would rather live and work in."
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax