9-11 by Noam Chomsky Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of 9-11
Book Review: An intellectual Rapist blames the Victim
Summary: 1 Stars
Everyone should read a little Noam Chomsky, one of the most formative influences and Grand Masters in the pantheon of modern American liberal thought. Chomsky's tired old flesh serves as a roadmap of where we've been and why we're here: a radicalizer. A revolutionary. A ghoul. A man whose tirades, screeds, and bromides against America are critical to understand in order to better grasp the vast divide that made our last two presidential elections such potboilers, have cast a once vital and moderate political opposition into something akin to a secular outer darkness, and today leads so many of our commentators to wring their hands at what they consider a divided nation.
Read Noam Chomsky in the same way you might read "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. Read it to drink in the sickness of a diseased mind gone wild with the fever heat. Read it as a diary of madness. Try not to be infected. Read it as a literary warning beacon. Read it to better sense the ravings of a gifted lunatic. With that in mind, a little Chomsky is called for, not a lot.
"9/11" fits the bill perfectly for the uninitiated: it is a pure distillation of the red rage and intellectual fossilization that has characterized Chomsky since the sixties, when he turned his passion for linguistics into a fixation on the injustice and evil of a nation, the United States of America, that had provided him with leisure and a sounding board. It is a sounding board for the modern Democrat party, for a party that stands days away from electing the frothing-mad Howard dean as its titular head, from anointing Michael Moore as its patron saint, heart, and soul.
Chomsky's "theories" make up a fearsome if fossilized triumvirate of ideas:
1) America's consumerist culture of death has resulted in a kind of uber-political "shop til you drop" institutional structure that hates starving children and seeks to export its greedy, amoral capitalism abroad.
2)Israel is the primary beneficiary of this consumerist, Mickey Mouse "Culture of Death".
3)9/11 occurred precisely because of our neo-imperialist retro-colonialist desire to export our consumerist Armaggedon through Israel into the Arab world. In Chomsky's distorted, sick, twisted, paranoid world view, America is guilty because the indigenous cultures---The arabs, the pygmies, the Zoroastrians, the Hindus---want to buy what we're selling. Never mind their free will, we should have been advanced enough never to sell, let alone manufacture, the goods we offer up in the Arab soukh.
4) As a result, according to Chomsky, we deserved 9/11. Stop. Breathe. Focus. Because of our policy---that is to say, our preference for democracy, property rights, privacy rights, freedom of speech---in a time of peace, 3000 plus people who did nothing more than put on their trousers and go to work deserved to be vaporized.
This is the very anatomy of a diseased mind, of a degenerate nature, of a diseased soul. Pick up 9/11 and read it: to bear witness to its madness is to serve as bailiff to the mind of Evil and insanity. If you agree that a jogger in Central Park at 7 in the evening deserved to be raped, then you'll love Chomsky. If you have even a shred of humanity, you'll want to vomit.
Book Review: An observant, no-holds-bar analysis of government hypocrisy
Summary: 5 Stars
Here is a very intriguing pamphlet that shows how silly the "War on Terror" actually is. Chomsky relates how the 9/11 terrorist attacks are nothing new to the world, simply stating that such massacres have been perpetrated by one country against another for hundreds of years. This will rile-up many people, but Chomsky points out that what was really unique was that "FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE GUNS HAVE BEEN DIRECTED THE OTHER WAY." European Powers colonized most of the rest of the world in the late 1800's and the early 1900's but they were never under attack from the countries that were taken over: "England was not attacked by India,nor Belgium by the Congo, nor Italy by Ethiopia, nor France by Algeria..." Other information given is that it was the CIA who covertly recruited and brought together the most radical Islamic Fundamentalists during the 1980's to fight in Afghanistan, and that these Islamists have been following thier own agenda since 1981, when President Sadat in Egypt was assasinated. Also, according to Chomsky, is that if every country followed what the US is doing in its "War on Terrorism" countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Lebannon would be justified launching massive bombing campaigns and terrorist attacks on US soil in retaliation for US actions against their countries. Chomsky even says that if the UK did what the US was doing, the Royal Air Force would have to bomb places where the IRA gets its support, like New York and Boston.
Book Review: Anti American Propeganda masked as psedo-intelectual drivel
Summary: 1 Stars
Chomsky shows his true colors with this book by needlessly trying to justify the atrocities of 9/11 , and by distorting truths, even tries to blame the event on previous US policies.Mindlessly condemning any US military action before the fact, Chomsky shows his hatred and mistrust of the US government. History has already proven him wrong just by looking at the lives that have been saved in Iraq and Afghanistan by removing oppressive regimes.
Chomsky failed to realize that the US is capable of careful, controlled military actions that minimize civilian casualties, and greatly benefit hundreds of millions of people. His cynicism also prevented him from foreseeing the selfless nation building exercises now underway in Iraq and Afghanistan that stabilize the mideast; despite the obvious historical precedence of US charity in response to war in nations like Japan, France and Germany to name a few.
It's important to realize that despite good intentions, the US isn't perfect and no better than other civilized societies. However, most of Chomsky's criticisms are way off base, and include his typical distortions of the truth to paint a black picture of what is really quite a great country.
Ultimately, Chomsky gives himself away as someone motivated by bitter hatred by publishing this horrible book less than a month after the atrocities while the smell of still burning flesh was hovering over the southern half of Manhattan.
There's no denying Chomsky tastelessly tried to make money on the tragedy by churning out this drivel immediately afterwards. He rightfully takes his place alongside the worst scum of the earth, including the hateful dastards who flew the planes into the buildings.
Book Review: Antidote to the mainstream news coverage
Summary: 5 Stars
Anoither thought-provoking book by Chomsky. I studied Chomsky's works while in university and have been a fan of his ever since. This book is an effective antidote to the pablum news coverage we receive in the american mainstream television news media. His book give perspective to such an unthinkable event, and should be required reading for anyone interested in national and global politics.Book Review: As Important As Books Can Get
Summary: 5 Stars
Chomsky's material is always both pleasant and shocking, but always informatively fulfilling. The only thing that makes this more urgent is that it relates itself to the largest terrorist attack on the US, but it is no more neccesary than his other writings. Chomsky is also able to show no age. The most-quoted living man of today is good as ever in his most recent book.