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| Chomsky: More to fear from US, Israel than Iran |
| 2009-12-10 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Top American intellectual Noam Chomsky says that the general public should fear more from the US and Israel than Iran. During a lecture entitled "Obama, the Middle East and the Prospects of Peace" delivered at Boston University on Tuesday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor stressed that Iran is acting within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). "All states [must] resolve their conflicts within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," he said. "Who was that resolution directed at? Nothing in the resolution relates to Iran. Iran is not threatening the use of force, and as far as anyone knows, they are staying within the bounds of the treaty," Chomsky added. He said people may have more to fear from the two countries that the American public would not typically associate with terrorism. "The resolution is actually directed at the two states that consistently and regularly do resort to force and the threat of force, namely the United States and Israel," he said. "Those are the countries that carry out aggression regularly and repeatedly, that invade other countries, occupy other countries, invoke terror and violence and they're unique in that respect," Chomsky added. He stated that the US government and its media have propagated exaggerated reports about Iran's nuclear program. "There has been a massive propaganda campaign that demonizes Iran, that portrays it as a major threat to world peace that has been going on for the past three years," Chomsky said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #19 jeebus. Our troll quality has dropped off. At least at AOSHQ they have laptop battery guy for spamming... Our trolls are semi-literate islamitard tools. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-10 22:16 |
| #18 gee... i thought nic was being tongue in cheek. guess i gave too much credit thinking nobody could actually be that stupid and still take the time to post. oops /sarc |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-12-10 21:44 |
| #17 Ooooo, tw fillets another troll. Bet he didn't even feel the razor. tw, |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-10 19:03 |
| #16 by the way prez was misquoted when he said israhell be wiped off , he meant that all israhellis shld go back to their respective counttries Poor nic. You wrote all the way from Mumbai to say that? My dear, if you wish to impress you need to work on your spelling, grammar, Near Eastern history, and foreign languages. After that you should work on your ability to think clearly and write persuasively, but one step at a time. I suspect you did not actually read President Ahmadenijad's statement in the original Farsi. If not, you are not qualified to pronounce on what he did or did not say. I suggest you look up the man's speeches on www.MEMRI.org to find out what he actually said; the distortions you've read in the blogs do not count if you wish to persuade those less ignorant than you. Then find a Farsi tutor at your nearby Berlitz school -- I seem to recall my husband mentioning seeing such things when he worked in Mumbai some years ago -- Farsi is a very different language than either Arabic or Urdu although it does use the Arabic alphabet, so you should have a head start there, assuming you read Urdu. In a few years, if you study hard, you'll be qualified to do simple translations of your own, and can decide whether or not you agree with MEMRI's experts. Until then, please do be quiet -- you are annoying people who actually know what you think you are talking about. As for sending the Israelis back... it's been tried. For the better part of a century, in fact. The only result has been to expand the territory held by the Jews, and to demonstrate yet again that Arabs and Iranians make terrible soldiers. Clearly their best killed off one another in the unending civil wars and blood feuds of the Muslim empires. In fact, the current situation in Pakistan is clarifying whether that behaviour is intrinsically Arab, or necessarily Muslim. Given that you are in Mumbai rather than Quetta or Peshawar, I would suggest you agree the omens are not favourable, my dear nic. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-10 16:54 |
| #15 Someone tell the troll at #12 that roughly 2.5 million Israeli Jews are ARABS who were chased out of their 'respective countries.' Maybe they could all go back at once- with weapons. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-12-10 16:46 |
| #14 Nic, do you really believe that BS? All the red-brown, from a good chunk of the french wingnuts to a good chunk of the Paranoid Conspiracy Theory folks (jeff rense or the web bot guys) push that "mistranslation" (by the joooooish-owned western media machine) meme, even it's stupid on its face, I mean, you love people with a brain, use yours, use context and longer term trends in what is said and what is done... But, by brain, given you root for chomsky, I take you mean antisemite, excuse me, "anti-zionist". Anyway, who cares? If you're a leftist, you're following your programming and that's too bad, if you're a wingnut, you are being lied to (to borrow a famous title), and you root for your ennemies. So, you do that, that's fine, myself, I'm off to DL some smut, that's fine too. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-12-10 14:17 |
| #13 Chomsky is 81. He still acts as an apologist of sorts for Pol Pot (he does it using "... well nobody has conclusively showed..." type language). |
| Posted by: lord garth 2009-12-10 12:15 |
| #12 at last ,i found someone having brains . by the way prez was misquoted when he said israhell be wiped off , he meant that all israhellis shld go back to their respective counttries and not nuke israhell as was potrayed .he clrified it later in the eastern media . |
| Posted by: nic 2009-12-10 11:33 |
| #11 Headline could have been: Chumpsky still an idiot! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-10 11:05 |
| #10 Chomsky loves the commies and turd world dictators so much. The problem is he won't go live there. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-10 10:02 |
| #9 Chomsky is a prime example of a scholar in one subject pontificating about other subjects and being taken seriously. Historians and political scientists should have laughed him out of the political commentary long ago. Out of job security if for no other reason. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-12-10 10:01 |
| #8 Noam Chomksy is a walking macro. Just feed in the third world country you want him to spout off about & you can just sit back and watch the mad lib machine crank out some polemic. No wonder he believes in Natural Language - he's easily the most programmed "public intellectual" outside of the North Korean propaganda shop. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-12-10 09:40 |
| #7 Chomsky: "Blah blah blah blah. Yada! Yada yada yada blah blah." Me: "Yawn yawn yawn!" |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-12-10 09:32 |
| #6 Come to think about it... I remember a story of an MIT "dinner" from those days that some "merry prankster type" got to the coffee and dosed the bunch of them pretty completely. I recall that it was hushed up. Somebody there who didn't drink the coffee told me about it - and its so long ago I forget who. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-12-10 08:25 |
| #5 Chomsky made sense when he invented his grammar theories in the 60's. Everything else he has done is BS. My guess is he took too much Acid in the 70s. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-12-10 08:21 |
| #4 He's still alive? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-10 02:55 |
| #3 He's had a thing for genocidal nutjobs ever since the 70's (most notoriously the Khmer Rouge). I'd be more surprised if he didn't support Iran. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-10 01:24 |
| #2 Iran is not threatening the use of force. Liar. Iran has repeatably threatened to wipe Israel off the map. Chomsky knows this - he is lying. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-12-10 00:15 |
| #1 Then go live Iran, asshole. "Top intellectual" my ass. Top asshole is more like it. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-10 00:08 |