As a good kneejerk liberal like Chomsky I feel Ishould agree with him about everything, but doesn't he make it hard? His analysis of the Welsh language situation seems so wide of the mark, so conditioned by a minority-American world view, that you start wondering "does he really know anything about Kurds". And his casual writing-off of Britain as a terrorist state just feels wide of the mark (I've just been own a very suburban street to buy the Guardian and I spent last night having a singsong with some Kurdish refugees). I could go on and take up a lot of his points, but frankly if I can see how how spectacularly wrong he is about things I know about personally, why I should I take him seriously on subjects I don't know about ? (I say all this with a feeling of sadness, as I take a broadly identical position to Chomsky on human rights, regional autonomy etc etc. I just wish he wouldnt weaken his position by talking ludicrous bollocks all the time).