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2007-07-31 Fifth Column
US wants effective control of Middle East oil: Chomsky
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Posted by Fred 2007-07-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Sounds good to me. Lets really do it.

Take the money away from the Orcs and see how long they can murder little girls and women....
Posted by CrazyFool 2007-07-31 00:02||   2007-07-31 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 first we need to confiscate Chomsky's wealth to start the redistribution of wealth™, right? No word on Chomsky's ownership of other-than-hybrid vehicles....heh
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-07-31 00:16||   2007-07-31 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 He quotes British military historian Corelli Barnett who has said, “An attack on Iran would effectively launch World War III.”

Pure twaddle. Sunnis would outwardly express indignant outrage at an American attack upon Iran but give us a standing ovation when behind closed doors. While that still doesn't make them our friends, it's pretty safe to say they wouldn't so much as twitch a pinky while the festivities were underway.

As to it being "all about the oil": So what if it is? The wealth America creates and shares by way of its petroleum consumption does one helluva a lot more for this world than all the contributions of every OPEC nation combined. For all their billions of petrodollars, the Arab producers export nothing but human misery along side of their oil. It would be a well-deserved lesson in proper assetment management if the USA confiscated all Middle East oil reserves and oversaw their extraction and distribution.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-31 00:44||   2007-07-31 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, yeah. Duh! And he says it like it's a bad thing....
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2007-07-31 02:41||   2007-07-31 02:41|| Front Page Top

#5 For the United States, the primary issue in the Middle East has been and remains effective control of its energy resources, according to Noam Chomsky.

For Saddam Hussein it was about controlling the oil, that's why he ran over Kuwait before heading for Saudi Arabia. For the House of Saud it's about controlling the oil producers, that's why they founded OPEC. If the U.S. had wanted to control their oil supply oil they would've conquered a certain 35 mile wide strip of Arabian coastline, key bits of Mexico, and Canada -- so one might be persuaded it's about something else. Of course, I'm just a little, Midwestern, suburban housewife instead of a famous MIT professor of linguistics whose pet theories in his chosen field are starting to shrivel under inquiry, so perhaps I could be wrong.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-31 05:08||   2007-07-31 05:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey genius, if that was the end game, then US troops would be replacing UK troops who are pulling out of Basra.

Chomsky's wife makes sure that he gets top dollar for every appearance, and he gets paid in advance. He is published by 3 different companies, and if you check prices of comparable books, you can see that he imposes a premium on his conspiracy tracts. Once I saw him get upset during an interview, when the fact that "Nightline" doesn't use his ravings. Boo hoo!
Posted by McZoid 2007-07-31 05:12||   2007-07-31 05:12|| Front Page Top

#7 For the United States, the primary issue in the Middle East has been and remains effective control of its energy resources

Even a stopped clock...
I only wish they'd go about it in a rational fashion---instead of trying to gain Muzzi allies.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-31 05:45||   2007-07-31 05:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Another empty barrel whose reality check bounced along time ago.
Posted by doc 2007-07-31 06:36||   2007-07-31 06:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Debka is more interesting than Chomsky.
Posted by Bobby 2007-07-31 06:40||   2007-07-31 06:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Debka is more interesting than Chomsky.

Now that's gonna leave a mark!
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-31 06:47||   2007-07-31 06:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Debka is more interesting than Chomsky.

More accurate, too.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-07-31 07:47|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-07-31 07:47|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm Chomsky, dammit! Chomsky! Remember the name! Chomsky!
Posted by Chomsky 2007-07-31 08:32||   2007-07-31 08:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Chomsky the commie chump. Start by redistributing your wealth. I'll provide my address so you will know where to send the check.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-31 09:19||   2007-07-31 09:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Chomsky the commie chump. Start by redistributing your wealth. I'll provide my address so you will know where to send the check.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-31 09:19||   2007-07-31 09:19|| Front Page Top

#15 I wish it was about oil and the US controlling it. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper and less violent in the long run with the Arab's blood/oil money running out.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-07-31 10:00||   2007-07-31 10:00|| Front Page Top

#16 Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers:

Posted by Graish Protector of the Wee Folk5492 2007-07-31 10:04||   2007-07-31 10:04|| Front Page Top

#17 Chompsky is just mad because world oil isn't controlled by his friends & allies.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-07-31 12:57||   2007-07-31 12:57|| Front Page Top

#18 "As to it being "all about the oil": So what if it is? The wealth America creates and shares by way of its petroleum consumption does one helluva a lot more for this world than all the contributions of every OPEC nation combined." Yes, and it is entirely OK that we should consume ALL the earth rescources in ONE GENERATION or TWO.I'll bet you travel in an RV because it replaced your Semi truck upon your retirement.
Posted by Albert Cravins6616 2007-07-31 12:58||   2007-07-31 12:58|| Front Page Top

#19 Yes, and it is entirely OK that we should consume ALL the earth rescources in ONE GENERATION or TWO.I'll bet you travel in an RV because it replaced your Semi truck upon your retirement.

Smile Shriek when you say that, green boy.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-31 14:17||   2007-07-31 14:17|| Front Page Top

#20 I, myself, plan to use it all up by next Tuesday, Albert Cravins6616.

Then whadda ya gonna do?
Posted by Bobby 2007-07-31 14:22||   2007-07-31 14:22|| Front Page Top

#21 Yes, and it is entirely OK that we should consume ALL the earth rescources in ONE GENERATION or TWO.I'll bet you travel in an RV because it replaced your Semi truck upon your retirement.

Wait, I thought old Albert (Gore III) was still in court today? Who knew he knew about Rantburg?
Posted by BA 2007-07-31 14:28||   2007-07-31 14:28|| Front Page Top

#22 Okay, he is 79 years old.
He has been a pain in the human race's butt for a good portion of that. Hasn't he over stood his welcome? Maybe its time for him to choose his next incarnation in a world that fits his perceptions?
Posted by 3dc 2007-07-31 14:44||   2007-07-31 14:44|| Front Page Top

#23 "Effective control" is something that Muslims will never achieve--why shouldn't we give it a try?
Posted by Crusader 2007-07-31 14:46||   2007-07-31 14:46|| Front Page Top

#24 Hey Noam, it is manifest destiny and devine right--don't fight it.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-31 15:34||   2007-07-31 15:34|| Front Page Top

#25 I'm Chomsky, dammit! Chomsky! Remember the name! Chomsky!
Posted by Chomsky 2007-07-31 15:40||   2007-07-31 15:40|| Front Page Top

#26 Chumpskys linguistics "theories" are nonsense so why listen to anything else he says? Especially when it's outside his area of "expertise"!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-07-31 16:20||   2007-07-31 16:20|| Front Page Top

#27 Oh, see but effective control is a linguistic device. Waytago, Noam!

We have it now! Had it then! Always had it! Always will. Prove Noam's wrong. Can't do it. It's effective control. Diabolical!
Posted by Bobby 2007-07-31 17:18||   2007-07-31 17:18|| Front Page Top

#28 There are three centers of creativity in the world today: North America (Canada and the US), Western Europe (mostly Britain, Denmark, and Sweden), and the Far East (primarily Japan and South Korea). Those three "arenas" consume a huge percentage of the world's resources. Those arenas also provide a significant majority of ALL new medical innovations, ALL of the advances in energy efficiency, the vast majority of all resources conservation and re-use, and a significant majority of other innovations. Chumpsky has been an open Communist sympathiser for decades. The figures are available to prove that socialism/communism is the most environmentally damaging, wasteful, and useless form of government, labor, and productivity. Chumpsky knows that, he just ignores it.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-07-31 22:07|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-07-31 22:07|| Front Page Top

#29 Chimpsky is a dick.

He is out of his area of expertise and his opinions on international politics and social policy should be given no more credence than you would give those of a master carpenter on constructing a jet engine.

And whats funny - Chimpsky's linguistics work is being shredded as well, which leaves him basically as a washed up academe who is pretty much Paris Hilton without the sex: famous for bring famous.

The man is a one note ideologue who has never let reality get in the way of his delusions of grandeur, his self importance, and his psychoses.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-31 23:58||   2007-07-31 23:58|| Front Page Top

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