Thursday, December 26, 2002

The Sick Mind of David Horowitz
"WITHOUT QUESTION, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation?s grave crisis ? the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America?s right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist" anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among the demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training grounds; and wherever young people manifest an otherwise incomprehensible rage against their country, the inspirer of their loathing and the instructor of their hate is most likely this man. There are many who ask how it is possible that our most privileged and educated youth should come to despise their own nation ? a free, open, democratic society ? and to do so with such ferocious passion. They ask how it is possible for American youth to even consider lending comfort and aid to the Osama bin Ladens and the Saddam Husseins (and the Communists before them)."

Comment: Horowitz's hatespeech against Chomsky contains the absurd view that to criticise the foreign policy of the United States is to despise their own nation, to lend support to Saddam, Bin Laden and communists. Horowitz lists some of the usual encomiums for Chomsky (including Bono's apt "Rebel without a pause") but omits by personal favourite: "Not to have read Chomsky is to court genuine ignorance." (source?)

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