Chomsky waves off 2016 US Republicans as “lunatics” ( Foreign Policies )
March 13, 2016
By Ademola Adegbamigbe
For many in Linguistics, Literature and other areas of Humanity courses, the name Professor Noam Chomsky would ring a bell. He is a man who, when he speaks, the US establishment people catch cold. And he has, according to an interview, published by www.alternet.org this month fired another verbal exocet now, dismissing many 2016 Republicans as “lunatics.”
Chomsky, a linguist, is the father of Transformational Generative Grammar which identifies surface and deep structures in Syntax. For example, if a man says “I am bigger than you (are),” there has been a transformation in the speaker’s brain from the deep structure of: “I am bigger than you are big…” Beyond grammar, however, Chomsky is an American philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist.
His political activism does not respect political authorities. According to Wikipedia, Chomsky was “an outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism. In 1967 Chomsky attracted widespread public attention for his anti-war essay, ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals.’ Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and earned a place on President Richard Nixon’s Enemies List.”
snip*And when he was asked whether he would expect that Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy would be different from President Obama’s? His answer was as piercing as a Saracen blade: “Judging by the record, she is kind of hawkish—much more militant than the centrist democrats, including Obama. Take for instance Libya: she was the one pressing the hardest for bombing, and look at what happened. They not only destroyed the country, but Libya has become the centre for jihad all over Africa and the Middle East. It’s a total disaster in every respect, but it does not matter. Look at the so-called global war on terror. It started 15 years ago with a small cell in a tribal sector in Afghanistan. Now it is all over, and you can understand why. It’s about comparative advantage of force.”
in full: http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/03/chomsky-waves-off-2016-us-republicans-as-lunatics/
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