Well, those are interesting comments, Greg, and I will give them some thought. I am always willing to consider an alternate viewpoint, if it is expressed in a relatively dignified and sane fashion. You may have some good points there. I find that not just Chomsky's, but virtually all Americans' thinking is severely restricted by their habit of seeing things from a "minority-American world view" (the view that America essentially is the main part...or the important part...of the world...and everything else is merely a subsidiary effect or aspect of that reality. It's the characteristic attitude most noticeable in Americans, to anyone who is not American.

Mind you, all other nationalities tend to suffer from this self-absorbed and misleading mental habit too...although it is usually more pronounced in the population of a great power than that of a minor one.

It leads to all manner of misunderstandings and atrocities. A good example of that is how militant Israelis recognize terrorism in an instant when it is done to them by others, but are absolutely blind to its existence when doing it themselves, under the auspices of a government and a uniform which they regard as legal and righteous.

- LH