Noam Chomsky About Serbia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia and NATO War 7

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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[sansez]

Milosevic wasnt a dictator, he was elected

And was US and Germany that instigated the war in former Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia was the last socialist country in Europe that need to be dismantled

[ikislav]

Drop it man... these people know nothing except for what they see on TV. You can't argue with them... they are so strongly indoctrinated in certain ways that you simply can't reason with them. They are too blind and ideologically tied down. Even if you told them that those who supposedly protect "democracy" are breaking international law with EVERY action in world affairs they would still drool around and yell "we are free".

[JackalSkull]

@nico3212 albanians came from turkey in the ottoman times

[JackalSkull]

@sansez completely not true,milosevic faked the elections and yougoslavia should't be dismantled

[ilovecrimemobalbo]

who cares if albanians are not illyrian?

[ikislav]

albanians are not illyrians... let me repeat that: ALBANIANS ARE NOT ILLYRIANS... Illyrian tribes, along all the other ancient balkan tribes completely vanished.

[boniturs]

"your history knowledge, my friend." i think your the one that needs to do that! SRBIJA

[vivacomitas]

What the hell all those ancient Serbian churches and monasteries are doing down there on Kosovo if its Albanian land. Check your history knowledge, my friend.

[nico3212]

The problem is the US will use it just for itself, as a military base, so the Illyrians wont be able to fully enjoy it! But IF ANYONE WANTS TO STUDY FACTS & TRUTH, STUDY the GREAT MIGRATIONS! The Slavs werent even in the Balkans at the time of Kosovo, before they barged their way down south to avoid the Mongols enslaving them! Then they did it to others! KOSOVO IS ILLYRIAN/ALBANIAN, the last vestiges of the Illyrian tribes! Tito made a real bloody mess of things for "his own personal gain!"

[nico3212]

As Much as I love Chomsky I have to disagree with him here! The facts are that Kosovo is Albanian land, essentially Illyrian land to the Illyrians of the ancient & Byzantine years! The Serbs who are Slavs werent even in the area at the time! They came south CENTURIES LATER FROM POLAND! IN FACT THEYRE NOT EVEN THE NATIVES! It was right to get the Serbs out of there! Then Kosovo could be given back to the Albanians/Illyrians! The Slavs are the blatant thieves here! But YOU HAVE TO KNOW UR HISTORY