Noam Chomsky About Serbia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia and NATO War 3

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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[ReginaldsTest]

When has Chomsky ever suggested that the US is "evil through and through"? He simply accepts the fact that most governing bodies, in any nation, act first and foremost in their own interests. This applies to the US as much as it does any country. Thank God that some one should abandon the childish notion that the world's political map is all black and white, don't you agree?

Also, I don't detect that he is unfairly "pro-Serbian" here. He is simply stating facts.

[vivacomitas]

Thanks Noam.

[zdssh]

Chomsky is an anarchist, anti US... but after some 50 years to be used as a propaganda tool for imperialism, expansionism, intolerance, modern day fascism and genocide that the official serb policy propagates..? Mr Chomsky you need to look inside yourself.

[zdssh]

Official serb policy was ethnic cleansing of non serbs in Kosovo since the 80's. Later, serb expansionism attacked Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and then again Kosovo. But then the serbs are "victims" right..??

[52111centrumcz]

@boskolalic2009

Erm, you don't understand. I did not say serb civilians commited war crimes. I said UCK commited war crimes, and Serb police&military units then came in and started shooting on armed people they thought were criminals - I didn't say serb civillians commited war crimes.

[eldinhadzovic]

Obican govnar.

[rangedkid]

@52111centrumcz I'm glad at least you understand.

[52111centrumcz]

@rangedkid

Yes, that is more or less how it happened, but try asking any hamburger munching anthropoid that has a US passport and 99% of the time you will get a blank stare...what? Kosovo? Where is that? We bombed it? Yeah go USA!

[rangedkid]

@52111centrumcz Lol, it all went downhill after Tito died. Almost all ethnic albanians in Kosovo (who were the majority of the poulation) lost their jobs and were replaced by Serbs. The entire thing was staged by US. Too bad Milosovic didn't see what was coming. US does this sort of thing all the time, and you have ignorant Albanians and Serbians hating each other for no reason.

[52111centrumcz]

@rangedkid

It was a response to massacres of civilian serb population - kind of like if someone invaded the US for the massacre at Waco where the US conducted genocide against a religious minority...see how simple it is to lie? Especially if you have most of the stupid herd of "independent media" following you.

[TomatoNanny]

@ReginaldsTest - well said my friend. so many intellectuals and press companies are biased that chomsky gets ridiculed purely because he tries to go beyond bias. he's not 'pro-Serb' at all. he acknowledges that milosevic, karidzic et al were fucking monsters, and are guilty of war crimes. but that doesn't legitimise an ideological bombing of Serb civilians, purely because they're diametrically opposed to the American ideology.

[theknasp]

@ReginaldsTest

And also that state-power serves coroporate and elite interests.