What's the Veeky Forums opinion on Chomsky?
Is he correct in his US foreign policy critique?
Is he correct in his evaluation of who the bad guys are?
Is he correct in his evaluation of the causes of terrorism?
and lastly: how is his historic accuracy? Is he trustworthy when he quotes historic events?
He's a typical American cuckold. To this day I have yet to encounter an American "intellectual" who isn't a bitch, a cuck, or a retard.
>bad guys
he is pretty much right about everything.
>KHMER ROUGE DINDU NUFFIN
obviously i was oversimplifying things. You know what i mean. But i do have the feeling that without any nuance chomsky sees the US indeed as "THE bad guys"
he said the red khmer were quite ok and that viatnamese socialism was pretty much perfect
agree with that?
>Man holding knife to girl's throat, police shoot him to death, one dead body, bystander injured by bullet
>Man barges into old lady's house, shoots her and robs her, runs off into the night
In Chomsky's world, these are morally equivalent, except the police officer might actually be worse because another person was injured :^)
>What's the Veeky Forums opinion on Chomsky?
For such a brilliant man, he can be remarkably stupid. He manages to miss the forest for the trees pretty consistently; and while his quoting of facts in the minute sense is pretty much always spot-on, he manages to weave incredibly dumb macrohistorical narratives out of it; largely because he tends to look at any given situation, try to identify the single biggest actor in that situation, shout loudly that it's that one actor's fault and nobody else's, and ignore everything else. Given that the U.S. is the de facto hegemon of the world and even before the collapse of the Soviet Union was pretty easily the most wealthy and militarily powerful state, that's usually America. But the mere fact that America has agency and a very long reach does not mean no other powers or policymakers have no agency, which is a corollary of his arguments.
Nice strawman
he does admit that other countries have a saying in those matters too: Saudi Arabia and Israel.
So the US, SA and Israel are the causing agents of everything that is wrong with the world according to him.