Noam Chomsky on U.S. policy towards Iran

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Are assumptions about Iran wrong?

Monday November 19th, 2007

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[Noeldiego]

@caligula212 But you have to admit he backs up all his arguments with facts. I dont find him to ever really take a stand for or against anything. He mostly says, lets not kid ourselfs, lets have a look at the way thing really are and lets not have dubblestandards. Dont you find it strange and contradictive that Saudi Arabia, a toralitarian muslim state with no respect for human rights is a friendly to the U.S govt? I mean come on.....I feel he calls it like he sees it, refreshing really, peace.

[KAPWC4EVR]

@snatchhog i am sure it was jews that ruined your life too, and not all the whiskey your mom drank when she was pregant with you

[chklitttle]

the jews think they own the world because they are the ''chosen race '' ,not by God, but the devil who is their god and they do his desires ''killing ,murdering ,starting wars ,terrorism etc

[DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

@isseyrox "anti-American" is meaningless rhetoric. do some research before you regurgitate FOX propaganda...

[sicktoaster]

@isseyrox

He's not talking about the Shah in the 30s.

There was a coup in the 50s that made it a dictatorship and the Shah went along with it.

[isseyrox]

Anti-american comments due to Russian migrant inferiority complex. If Iran is so brilliant and the US so evil, why wouldn't you migrate to Iran like your father did to the US?

Also don't lie to people. Shah of Iran (RIP) was not a dictator, in the contrary he was as pro-democracy as you can get in the context of Iran in the 1930s. But that is not good enough for Chomsky because Shah chose to be pro-american and didn't support communism in Russia.

[BelfastAtheist]

I'm ashamed I ever believed all the war propaganda against Iran from Christopher Hitchens...

[dihydrohydroxycodein]

There it is again: The Iranian threat ;) Distractfrom domestic issues again.

[JagjeetMann]

the difference with the soviet invasion of afghanistan was that the afghan goverment requested the invasion first, and the goverment promoted atheism and gave full rights to women such as clothing; so what happened again? oh yes the US killed undreds of thousands of Russians in order to prop up an islamic fundamentalist regime in connection to Al Qaeda which it is now fighting against claiming they are terrorists, LAWL. give me a break

[MegaRosX]

@Noeldiego And yet there are no protests in Saudi Arabia, its just so sickening, I mean there is no parts in Islam or the Quran that says women shouldn't drive or vote. The world is retarded. But still its their law, just like ours where U.S. citizens can be assassinated, if given the go by the government, without any trials.

[rambo753]

Jewish lobby is massively pushing for the US to attack Iran.

How can 300 million Americans accept that their own country is ruled by a tiny minority inside a tiny minority of 6 million Jews??

[BelfastAtheist]

@BigMikeMcBastard

Seeing as you found it confusing, I'll ask you directly, actually.

Do you think the moral thing to do would have been to let the Soviets absorb Afghanistan? On the off-chance that a Radical Islamist Government took over? How on Earth were Japan, America, Saudi Arabia and all the other Countries who helped fend off the Soviets supposed to guess the Salafists would fund a campaign to get the Taliban into power? Go on, answer that why don't you.