Chomsky - Perle Debate - Part 12

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

Question from the audience: 'Reconstruction or control in foreign policy'

The sound quality is at times quite poor.

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[kubikmaster]

"Perle sounds like he really doesn't want to be there "

I dont know about you, but at this point the "debate" sounds to me like an old picture of Muhammed Ali after beating a guy who is defenseless in the floor...Perle is down, 1,2,3,... K.O.

[Necrovore666]

Yeah, it's pretty disgusting when someone advocates freedom, independence and peace.  What a monster - he reminds me of Goebbels!

[Ryukikon]

what country does not reconstruct with control that is the basis of direct imperialism. I am not going to leave you to go and build up a military or something else for you to drive me out or pay the maximal cost to re-control you. I mean Perle thinks this is not common or logical, he knows better.

[Ryukikon]

@apostolostv

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[polymath7]

@drjimiboy69 I'm thinking Tyson-Spinks. This is easily, without a shadow of a doubt, the most comprehensively one-sided debate I have *ever* seen.

[thesparitan]

@drjimiboy69 lol true

[thesparitan]

@James2010May lol and that must be why perle gave up.  Whatever

[nasri1011]

@James2010May

Hegemony is a form of Imperialism. you may personally think theirs only one form of Imperialism. but don't confuse your opinion with facts.

[BCsJonathanTM]

@James2010May Come again?

[BCsJonathanTM]

@Necrovore666

In that the ACTIONS Perle supported were IN OPPOSITION to the values he SAID he supported?

Or are you talking about Chomsky?

[James2010May]

Chomsky, a linguist, often uses words in a way that posits an equivalence that is simply not there. In this sense, he purposefully uses semantics to advance an argument rather than reason. Their is only one form of Imperialism when it comes to America with no distinction made between conquest to stay and conquest to remold sick cultures like Japan and Germany and go home. Control of Japan to not be warlike is not naked conquest.

[SIMKINETICS]

Perle is an example of placement of amateurs in high places based on the buddy system and willingness to have rubber-stamping colluders do the bidding of the hidden corporate/banking puppetmasters. His responses sound like they come from a playbook of which he has little deep understanding. Chomsky's knowledge & intellect bring this to light brilliantly.