Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Laughing with Noam

Noam Chomsky has written a gem called, "What if Iran had invaded Mexico?".

Here is a choice quote from the article

"The debate over Iranian interference in Iraq proceeds without ridicule on the assumption that the United States owns the world. We did not, for example, engage in a similar debate in the 1980s about whether the U.S. was interfering in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, and I doubt that Pravda, probably recognizing the absurdity of the situation, sank to outrage about that fact (which American officials and our media, in any case, made no effort to conceal). Perhaps the official Nazi press also featured solemn debates about whether the Allies were interfering in sovereign Vichy France, though if so, sane people would then have collapsed in ridicule."


And here is a link to the full text:

Armageddon comic relief

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

Charles Darwin