Noam Chomsky the right of reason the Afghanistan Quagmire

[urcritic]

Many people don't seem to understand HardTalk - The interviewer plays Devil's Advocate - he's there to project the official and/or main stream view of certain events prompting the interviewee to respond with their views - in this case it's Noam Chomsky (one of the greatest minds to have ever walked our planet)

[cbens]

Brilliant proverb: I am my environment.

[111RobinHood]

Noam Chomsky is a bright and intelligent man when it comes to foreign politics but incredibly his stupidity reveals is revealed when he considers 9/11 as being caused by such governmental conspiracy stories that Al Qaeda were responsible for 9/11. We have a war against Al Qaeda? Well, even as we speak we are arming Al Qaeda rebels through the CIA in Libya in what NATO considers a humanitarian aid. Bullshit. The public must be confused for we are at war with Al Qaeda and supporting them as well.

[111RobinHood]

Get the facts straight. We invaded Afghanistan in order to drive an oil pipeline through it which the Taliban were against. America never invades any country for democratic or humanitarian reasons but for its corporations. If you claim that we invaded Afghanistan because we wanted Bin Laden, then that is false because Bin Laden is not on the FBI wanted list for 9/11. And second, 9/11 was a false flag operation and an inside job as shown by the tons of evidence which borders on proof. Thank you!

[EkajTheSwordsman]

This is why you need to check Chomsky's sources. The threat of mass starvation was only if the Taliban were not overthrown, according to the very NYT articles he cites as evidence for his position:

[EkajTheSwordsman]

In 2002, it was reported that: "$4.5 billion in international aid has been sent to Afghanistan that wouldn't have been sent had the Taliban remained in power. The Taliban was known for pushing aid organizations out of the country for such "violations" as being Christian. The World Food Program reports that food aid is now successfully reaching 6.6 million people in Afghanistan, far more than was the case under the Taliban."

[EkajTheSwordsman]

"In an aid update from January, UNICEF workers immunized 572,000 children in Kabul during the first two weeks of 2002, "six times higher than the total immunization coverage in 2001." They also vaccinated over 700,000 children against measles during the first two months of 2002, in a country where, as Nicholas Kristof pointed out in the..."

[EkajTheSwordsman]

..."Feb. 1 New York Times" virtually no one had been vaccinated against the disease in the previous 10 years." That alone will save the lives of at least 35,000 children each year. Kristof also quotes Heidi J. Larson of UNICEF saying that she expects maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan will halve as a result of improved health care over the next five years. That's another 112,000 children and 7,500 pregnant women saved each year."

[Dionysos37]

This "reporter" is a great example showing that the "free media" are in fact a disciplinary apparatus---They are not there to listen but to actively frame issues "for you" according to the assumptions of Power, to correct "wrong" opinions that do not serve its ends, and if all else fails, to constantly interrupt other points of view with compulsive illogic: no matter how disastrous

[QwidgyboMan]

The interviewer is a walking propaganda apparatus.

[99thDimension]

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[Thekelvin7777]

does anyone know what this style of interviewing is all about its like a deliberate attempt to stick ideas onto some one that they dont actually support to make them look shit basically but he did completley fail ,but that was his objective ,i dont get it?

[99thDimension]

@Thekelvin7777 they have done this a few times on HardTalk what I like about this interview is Noam takes the high road. The BBC does the samething to Nick Griffen the leader of the BNP based on fear the fear that they (NWO) could lose control of popular opinion. All Nick Griffen does is speak the truth and the elites can't stand it, they are very bias about lying about Mr. Griffen themselfs.

Glad to see you picked up on whats going on all around us.

[Arkinight]

Good ol' Norm Chomsky.

[CanadianBeaver]

Peace and Love!