Noam Chomsky About Serbia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia and NATO War 6

On the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Danilo Mandic
RTS Online, April 25, 2006
NOAM CHOMSKY, world-renowned linguist, political analyst, philosopher and activist, has been called "arguably the most important intellectual alive" by the New York Times. Recently, in a British magazine poll, he has been voted by a landslide as the top public intellectual in the world today. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar, and remains the eighth most cited scholar ever. A professor at MIT, he is the author of more than 80 books, including The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo. His most recent book is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.

Danilo Mandic: Professor Noam Chomsky, in your, if I am not mistaken, first TV media appearance for Serbian media, thank you very much for being with us.

Noam Chomsky: I am glad to be with you.

Danilo Mandic: Last month marked the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the bombing of Yugoslavia. Why did NATO wage that war or I should say why did the United States wage that war?

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[nbluka5]

Chomsky is right on!

[POlNTMAN]

Actually, he makes a lot of sense. The US had no legitimate pretense to invade Serbia - claims of "genocide" in Kosovo were proved to be false.

Don't get me wrong, I support US in general, but what they did to Serbia was a shame.

[rangedkid]

@POlNTMAN You shouldn't support US in general. Are you fucked? What they did to Serbia is so minute in comparison to what they are doing RIGHT NOW across the world.

[albanypjm]

@Aceofaces13

yes, yes, comrade enver hoxha was a great man.

[albanypjm]

@djape1977

most of our (usa) problems in the world are rooted in our support for the jews/israel. that is simply a fact. when we stop supporting the jews we will have more friends.

[weird1321]

@POlNTMAN Why the fuck would a sane person support the us?? For FUCK SAKE!

[Shavarnarak]

@POlNTMAN

Why support the US at all?

I don't see anything supportworthy about that country at all.

[bezibre87]

@Y02134 Tell me, Is being paranoid just a "line of attack" you Muslims have or is it genetic? Hehehe, just to educate you a bit: Bosnian - nationality; Serbian - ethnicity, lots of difference there. XD I was always daunted by Albanian lack of information, but saying that Ivo Andric and Nemanja Kusturica are not Serbs, that's funny as hell. You can hate Serbs but at least try to find a reason that can be considered as logical and for god's sake normal, like this you're just irrelevant and stupid.

[bezibre87]

@Y02134 Ah, typical Muslim. You see violence everywhere, you're always being oppressed, and you're all peaceful but everyone else is sadistic. Noam Chomsky is a great example of how delusional you are, he's presenting facts that are documented by independent analysts, stating that bombing was illegal, how you provoked Serbs by killing innocent people, how Western propaganda tried to cover up everything, and what you have to say (without any arguments) is that Serbs are the negative factor.

[Y02134]

Respond Respond to this video...

I agree that Serbia has some very smart people like Tesla, and most of all it is famous for such evil masterminds like Miloshevic, Karadzic, etc. Albanians would have had more people besides Jim Belushi, Inva Mula, Ismail Kadare, Fadil Berisha Ferid Murati, DioGardi and others if we would have not been killed constantly by Serbs as you are wishing it would have happened to all of us. This is truly sick and sad. this video...

[Y02134]

@bezibre87

As for the names of some of these VIP's I have to say you are wrong: Ivo Andric and Emir Kusturica are Bosniak's and not a Serb. It appears that I as an Albanian now these facts better then you. I suggest you think twice before you start a debate, and please only talk about supported facts and not assumptions. If you don't know how to check Kusturica's and Andrevic's origins please just "google" or "wikipidia" it is easy and quick, this is just a neighborly advise.

[Y02134]

@bezibre87

Look "bezibre", it appears that you have no idea of what violence is, but I kind of understand you seem to be a Serb and as such you must have a higher threshhold for violence taking into account to all the wars that Serbia has initiated. I can only feel pity for you, ask whomever you want and they will tell you that things that you and some others have posted are extremely violent. You are talking about killing and making extinct a hole nation, that is not only violent but scary.