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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:29 PM
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36. Chomsky Says He Is Not Anti-American
and for the most part, a lot of what he does is tell the story of US foreign policy from a neutral point of view.

On the other hand, some of what he says does not ring true to me. When he discusses domestic policy, he tends to simplify complex issues, assume that more social spending is always better, and depict US life in a way that I don't recognize. On the Libyan revolution, he seems to be depicting a clearly native grass-roots movement fighting for their lives as being controlled by the Western powers, almost comparable to the Nicaraguan contras. To me those two are worlds apart.

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