Noam Chomsky on Libya, Israel & GOP Presidential Candidates' 'Utterly Outlandish' Positions

[Douglas Carpenter]

Run time: 15:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFsZQedsWuw   Posted on YouTube: September 16, 2011 By YouTube Member: democracynow Views on YouTube: 4551   Posted on DU: November 26, 2011 By DU Member: Douglas Carpenter Views on DU: 884

 

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, I must say that politics in this country now is in a state that I think has no analogue in American history and maybe nowhere in any parliamentary system. It’s astonishing. I mean, I’m not a great enthusiast for Obama, as you know, from way back, but at least he’s somewhere in the real world. Perry, who’s very likely—very likely to get the—to win the primary and win the nomination, and maybe to win the election, he’s often in outer space. I mean, his views are unbelievable. Bachmann is the same. Romney is kind of more or less toward the center. These are—the positions that they are taking are utterly outlandish.

I mean, as you mentioned before, I just came back from Europe, where people just can’t believe what they’re seeing here, what people are saying. I mean, take one of the really crucial issues for the human species: doing something about environmental catastrophe. Well, you know, every single one of the Republican candidates—maybe not Huntsman, but every major one—is a climate change denier. It’s kind of ironic in the case of Perry. He says there’s no global warming, while Texas is burning up with the highest temperatures on record, fire all over the place, and so on. But it doesn’t matter, it’s just not happening. In fact, the one who has conceded that maybe global warming has taken place is Michele Bachmann. I heard a statement of hers in which she said, "Well, yes, maybe it’s happening. It’s God’s punishment for allowing gay marriage," or some comment like that. I mean, this—what’s going on there is just off the international spectrum of sane behavior.

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[nilram]

1. "off the international spectrum of sane behavior"

Good phrase.

[sabrina 1]

2. He's very subtle in his speech. But what he said about NATO

having any legitimacy to be involved in Libya? What right did they have, legally? Libya did not attack a NATO member nor are they a NATO state.

Making up lies to get the UN to do their bidding, same thing with Iraq. No wonder the world no longer trusts the Western powers. They seem bound and determined to return to their old Colonial ways, especially in Africa and the ME.