Chomsky - Perle Debate - Part 17

Noam Chomsky and Richard Perle debate US foreign policy at Ohio State University in 1988.

Concluding statements from Richard Perle

The sound quality is at times quite poor.

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[gjsterp]

The sad thing about intellectual people like Perle is they believe what they say. Assuming Perle is sincere, we can only assume he has fallen for the propaganda machine, but if you check wikipedia, you will find he belongs to the propaganda machine - big media chairman.

So, he must be lying.

[kubikmaster]

to go back to greek bassics, Perle appealed to the ethos of the people (if you believe in the values of the country, so and so wa wa), Chomsky instead apealed to reason, Logos.

Ethos gives big paycheck, Logos gives you work in accademia (if ya'r lucky)

[bodie9991]

Perle frames his rebuttal in a way that invites you to emote (and not to think) and tempts you to feel that Chompsky's argument is a personal attack on Americans. I think the powerful imbibe this emotive thought process in their mother's milk, so to speak, and do genuinely get through public and private life using it. It's no good using rational evidence based argument in a career in public service because in general the public don't use it either.

[James2010May]

@kubikmaster Yeah, America right or wrong. I'll take it when it's right and fix it when it's wrong, not just following along in a stupor.

[nblumer]

It's interesting that Perle is making the argument that US foreign policy is generally for the good and we should have more faith in the elite of this country -afterall they are just like you and me. Yet when he demonises his enemies he affords no such sentiment.

[lclarsen]

PERLE:

"If you believe that we are organized principly to serve the selfish interests of a few..."

Does any serious social critic have a different view of any major world power thorughout history?

If this video had been widely watched Richard Perle would've spent the last 22 years in telemarketing or homelessness rather than "public service."

[lclarsen]

PERLE: " "I've listened at much greater length then i would have ever desired to a view of the world that I've never seen in my years in govt, in which a small number of men foolishly, in order to enrich themselves, are prepared to inflict suffering and cruelty around the world..."

He's worked hard not to ever have seen such a world.

[Donkolopis]

and boom goes the dynamite

[brandnutopian]

Holy crap! Perle's rebuttal amounts to a withered plea for popular sentiment to buoy his rather flaccid argument. I bet he never even so much as entered the same room as Chomsky again for fear he'd crap his pants.

[mistermoen]

That sucked. What a shitty rebuttal.

[fanniterrette]

The accusation that Perle makes in his grotesquely solemn voice that Chomsky had attacked "the American people" is one of the most common tactics at Fox News. "Why do you hate America?," Mr. Hannity once asked Michael Moore. It's another example of the brain-dead propagandizing so common to Right Wingers like Pearl. If you have no defense, just make your opponent sound like he or she "hates Americans" or "hates America." That'll get the herd on your side.

[Dalambam]

Regarding the video debate, could you elaborate a bit on the points where you disagree with Chomsky?

Cos your comments so far have been.. um.. just bizarre. Perle supporters seem to have a hard time, lol.