The View From 1776

Bill Greene reports: Chomsky Turns To The Right !!!: Chomsky Joins Fox News and Sarah Palin to Fight Obama and the Evil Bankers

Professor Chomsky was a prominent critic of our involvement in the VietNam war and one of the most prominent opponents of our counter-measures against Al Queda terrorism in the wake of 9/11.

In the past, if he had anything complimentary to say about the United States, it was not widely reported.  For example, in America’s Dumbest Intellectual, by Stefan Kanfer in CITY JOURNAL, Summer 2002 | Vol. 12, No. 3:

The goal of America, Chomsky charges, “is a society in which the basic unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it’s not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that’s not your problem either.” Prisons and inner-city schools, Chomsky maintains, “target a kind of superfluous population that there’s no point in educating because there’s nothing for them to do. Because we’re a civilized people, we put them in prison, rather than sending death squads out to murder them.” Another example: “When you come back from the Third World to the West—the U.S. in particular—you are struck by the narrowing of thought and understanding, the limited nature of legitimate discussion, the separation of people from each other.”

Another example: The New Criterion, May 2003,The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky, by Keith Windschuttle.

Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous American intellectual to rationalize the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The death toll, he argued, was minor compared to the list of Third World victims of the “far more extreme terrorism” of United States foreign policy.