RE: Re: Chomsky in the news

["Brownson, Jamil" <JBrownson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

agreed, but an addenda, US-UK "proxy" is plural, as it includes Pushtun
factions, which over time will grow to be more distinctly different from NA,
not only in terms of ethnicity, but a a more likely poppwer base for US
interests, which include reforming Pakistan & bring it back into line with
US policy & prior cold war relationship of proxy in the line of Soviet
containment.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:05 AM
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PEN-L:20083] Re: Chomsky in the news


Thomas is probably twisting words.  Certainly, the war is destructive for
Afgan.  The US is planning the war.  So, if Chomsky says that the US is
planning a war that will destroy ...., it is easy to twist to "the US is
planning to destroy."

Of course, no respectable news outlet would ever let Chomsky speak for
himself.  We, the unwashed, need expert interpreters so that we don't get it
wrong.

jdevine@xxxxxxx wrote:

> from Microsoft's SLATE on-line newsmagazine:
>
> Chomsky Speak

> "Coalition forces [meaning American and British forces together with their
proxy, the Northern Alliance] are making plans to further destroy the
hunger-stricken country. The consequences of their crimes will never be
known and they are quite confident about that. And that is the enormous
outcome of the crime of the powerful ..."
>

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