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Mickey Z
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Monday, September 27, 2004
Chomsky's Trap
As Election Day nears, I’m compelled to recall something the late Pakistani dissident, Eqbal Ahmad, said about Noam Chomsky in the excellent book, “Confronting Empire”:
Ahmad said: “He has never wavered. He has never fallen into the trap of saying, ‘Clinton will do better.’ Or ‘Nixon was bad but Carter at least had a human rights presidency.’ There is a consistency of substance, of posture, of outlook in his work.”
Along came 2004...and the Bush/Kerry election. On June 11, 2004. David Barsamian asked Chomsky this question: “Every four years Americans, those who vote, are faced with what is often called the lesser of two evils as their presidential options. Dave Dellinger, who passed away in May, used to call it ‘the evil of two lessers.’ You say that there is ‘a fraction’ of difference between George Bush and John Kerry. And this raised some eyebrows. I heard, “It sounds like Chomsky is coming out for Kerry.” Could you expand on your position?
To read Chomsky’s answer and decide for yourself if he has fallen into the trap Ahmad describes above, click on the word “more” below:
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