http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2011/04/06/noam-chomsky-on-libya-and-unfolding-crises/ Cubadebate, Against Terrorism in the Media Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2011/04/06/noam-chomsky-on-libya-and-unfolding-crises/#comment-95 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:09:29 +0000 http://en.cubadebate.cu/?p=1187#comment-95 “Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
That is all that needs to be said re. the cowardly and shameless attack on a sovereign state.
Is Mr. Chomsky giving us an object lesson in “manufactured dissent”? His speech is peppered with terms such as “cruel dictator”, “A slaughter in Benghazi was likely”, “erratic Libyan dictator”, again “Preventing a likely massacre in Benghazi”. Chomsky rejects, by his words, that Qadhafi is the legitimate and popular leader of his embattled nation, and slyly perpetuates the fiction that he’s instead bent on the slaughter of innocent civilians. All of it the same nonsense parroted by the Western media without a shred of evidence to support this argument, relying on loaded terms to appeal to instinct and stampede the mob. Despicable, as I’m sure he already knows who these armed-to-the-teeth “civilians” really are, and at whose behest they are trying to tear apart a country. Libya is indeed crawling with mercenaries, but unlike the Western portrayal, they’re not exactly Qadhafi’s men.
If Chomsky is truly “concerned for peace, justice, freedom and democracy”, he should perhaps free the Libyans of the constraints he himself imposes on them by implying that the patriots/loyalists are somehow supporting an evil dictator who would have carried out a slaughter of innocents in Benghazi. An interesting piece indeed…
What a lovely sheepskin coat Noam, by the way.

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