Noam Chomsky on US War in Afghanistan, NATO and Israel/Palestine. Democracy Now 4/3/09 1 of 4

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWI_yovwLA
We speak to Noam Chomsky, prolific author and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As NATO leaders gather for a sixtieth anniversary summit in France, Chomsky says, The obvious question is, why bother celebrating NATO at all? In fact, why does it exist? Chomsky also analyzes the Obama administrations escalation of the Afghanistan occupation and reacts to the new Netanyahu government in Israel.

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[NYCNECH]

I'm so embarrassed that he gets huge audiences, wild cheers, all around the world, but here in his own country he plays to tiny stifled rooms, maybe 20 to 50 people at a time. Half the people that I know who actually know Chomsky, know it because I told them. I'm embarrassed that the Media in this country has been handed over to be used against us to the level it has been.

[CitizenCindy]

Can't go wrong with Chomsky

[darkillity]

chomsky is great but it's pretty difficult to keep up with him cause he speaks so monotonously throughout. subtitles would be perfect.

[tanvo93]

@punxsutawneybarney its true..the head of the FBI said it..the Taliban was willing to extradite or whatever Osama Bin Laden if they had evidence..but they didnt

[bilfo71]

@punxsutawneybarney Here is the reason ... if my government wanted to extradite an American national suspected of war crimes against my country. First thing America will do is to say to my country provide evidence and since America could not provide proof hence the war is illegal. Now don't get me wrong i despise the Taliban but when the Russians asked us to help them against the Taliban we instead sided with them. 

[punxsutawneybarney]

Chomsky told Iranian TV recently that Bush invaded Afghanistan when he had no evidence that al Qaeda was guilty. He says the war is totally illegal and criminal. See my video "Chomsky on Faith-Based War and 9/11"

[booboonation]

Obama embarrasses me.

[Cathode0]

afghanistan: (noun) An ideal location from which to attack a surrounding bonanza of energy-producing, sovereign nations; such a location with a defensive aspect regarding neighboring resource supply lines; a nation who's leadership acts as an uncle tom to it's neighbors: nations inhabited by interrelated, indigenous ethnoreligious groups; foreign land in which you owe (to a greater collective) military service.

Hopefully this helps me retain the reason, so I won't have to look it up again.

[NYCNECH]

@amareto35 Yoooou.. get that I'm pro Chomsky, right?

[amareto35]

@NYCNECH, well, if you want to watch propoganda and want to hear what you want to hear, I suggest you to watch "FOX NEWS"...