9-11 by Noam Chomsky Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of 9-11
Book Review: As expected from Chomsky
Summary: 4 Stars
A very worthy point of view for those searching for an understanding of the global position of the U.S. today.Book Review: Asking the right questions.
Summary: 5 Stars
Chomsky is disturbing to many people becasue he asks the difficult questions. When most of the U.S. media is focused on retaliation, bombs, attacking Afganistan,then looking for the next area in the world to bomb, Chomsky asks, Who is served by this response. The British govenment did not bomb Belfast in retaliation for the IRA attacks, or Boston, which was the source of most of the IRA funding. More to the point, however, is the history of Nicaragua where the U.S. was obviously the aggressor against a fellow republic and was condemmmed by the World Court for unlawful use of force, i.e., state terrorism. Then the U.S. and Israel vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on the U.S. to desist. It is why the U.S. for the first time in history was not included among states which respect human rights in the last U.N. report. The brutal attack on the helpless population of Afganistan is not an action which shows the U.S. as a nation which respects international law or the integrity of others nations or its peoples. Nor has its purpose, the apprehension of Bin Laden, been accomplished.Those who find Chomsky disturbing tend to be folks who do not read news or opinions outside the U.S. Dialogue on controversial international subjects tends to be circumscribed by the media in the U.S. and the limits clearly set out. Few students of history have read The Irish Soldiers of Mexico by Michael Hogan or the Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galleano which are required reading for most international students. Both books show a history of U.S. forceful interventions which would certainly make reflective readers see more dimensions and more appropriate responses to terrorism than retaliation which results in the collateral damage of tens of thousands of innocent lives.
Book Review: Atrocities Abound
Summary: 5 Stars
Although the book is quite unique--being a collection of interviews--the content is more than pleasing. Noam Chomsky is asked by journalists from abroad about 9-11 and the events leading up to it along with an aftermath. Chomsky's opinions are those of a humanist, consistently stating its not necessary for countless civilians to die. In Noam's way, he leaves no room for rebuttal. His statements and opinions are backed with facts that cannot be argued. Purchase this book, quite the bargain indeed!Book Review: Awful
Summary: 1 Stars
Chomsky is an intellectual leader of the anti-war left. In Chomsky's view, the World Trade Center deaths were regrettable but the unprecedented humiliation of the imperialist power - America - was an historic victory for social justice and human progress. He attributes the bad deeds of America's enemies to America itself - hence the search for "root causes" every time America is attacked. Irrational, Marxist nonsense.Book Review: Being really smart does not mean you know anything.
Summary: 1 Stars
Noam Chomsky could well be the character upon whom famed intellectual/cannibalistic mass murderer Hannibal Lecter is based. Brilliant in his chosen field (that's linguistics, not political science), he nonetheless is possessed of an insatiable need to feed on the flesh of the nation that welcomed his people while the Europeans were burning Jews' homes, and preparing to do much worse.
9-11 is a miserable, malicious, and awesomely unsophisticated villification of the greatest and most successful country in the history of mankind, the United States of America.
If you want to know why your toddler knows the f-word even though you never said it in front of him, read Chomsky. If you want a cogent and insightful analysis of American foreign policy and the politics of Muslim fanaticism, you'd do just as well to ask that same toddler as to read this glob of moronic silt.