Intellectual GBH
Beaumont wants to establish that he is a Good Person: “I was opposed to what I believed was an illegal war in Iraq … I, too, have been troubled by the consequences of occupation”. But he’s not like Chomsky, because “I reject Chomsky’s view that American misdeeds are printed through history like the lettering in a stick of rock.” While Chomsky’s thought is doctrinal, lofty and as rigid as Brighton rock, Beaumont’s is supple, nuanced and rooted in experience: “the conclusions I have drawn from more than a decade of reporting wars on the ground is that motivations are complex, messy and contradictory, that the best intentions can spawn the worst outcomes and, occasionally, vice versa.” That is an interesting thought, but the implicit standard is one he appears curiously reluctant to extend to official enemies. At any rate, he is supposed to be discussing Chomsky’s book and has offered not a single example of what he is talking about so far.
Chomsky-bashers. They’re everywhere these days. If you’re offended by seeing another “intellectually rigorous” Chomsky-basher get a good kicking, look away now.
July 8th, 2006 at 2:17 am
Wow. Lenin kicked Beaumont around like a hackeysack. That was fun. Thanks for the tip.
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