Chomsky the Ba'athist
by Steven Plaut
March 07, 2005

Almost the entire world, certainly the entire civilized world, is in awe and
in dazed euphoria at the sight of Lebanese defying the Syrian fascist
regime, openly demanding liberation of their country from Syrian oppression.
Many of us who never believed we would see such a movement in our lifetimes
are overwhelmed with admiration for this rebellion of the masses against
tyranny; and all this, in the Arab world.

Interestingly, not every person in the democratic West is overjoyed at
seeing Syrian fascism at last challenged. Noam Chomksy, the MIT inventor of
now-discredited theories of linguistics, is determined to defend and
perpetuate Syrian colonization of Lebanon, no matter how many Lebanese lives
it costs.

His reason? He insists Syrian occupation of Lebanon is necessary as a way to
prevent those evil Israelis from doing horrid deeds in Lebanon, like
attempting to protect their citizens from terrorist attacks launched out of
Lebanon. Yes, the same academic apologist for the Khmer Rouge - who defended
the Communist regime in Cambodia to the last throughout the years of the
genocide it carried out - prefers to have Lebanon under Bashar Al-Assad's
jackboot. Especially if it prevents the Lebanese from engaging in their
notorious fondness for capitalism and entrepreneurship, which Chomsky wants
wiped out and replaced with Stalinism, and if it also deters Israel from
striking terrorist bases.

Really.

Chomsky is redistributing a screed on the usual moonbat web sites - those
that otherwise spend their days celebrating Ward Churchill's ideas - in
which he sings the song of celebrating Ba'athism. Chomsky has spent the past
decade defending Syria's oppression of Lebanon, and his pro-Assad articles
are being recycled these days on Indymedia web sites and by the Ba'athists
themselves. (Also take a look at http://sdimc.org/en/2005/02/107735.shtml.)

Noam Chomsky is not only more anti-American than Ward Churchill, arguing
that America is a far more evil country than Nazi Germany, but he is a
vicious anti-Semite, as well. He not only defends Holocaust deniers and
Palestinian mass murderers of Jews, but he also promotes every anti-Jewish
blood libel to crawl out of its hole, including - this week - the old
neo-Nazi fable concerning the Israeli mistaken firing upon the USS Liberty
in the middle of the Six Day War.

The US government long ago put that story to rest, saying it was all an
understandable human error in the middle of the fog of war. But the
neo-Nazis and anti-Semites continue to beat the USS Liberty drum, never, of
course, displaying any interest in any of those thousands of American lives
lost due attacks by Islamofascists. Such people are only interested in
protesting the loss of American lives when this serves to demonize Israel
and "dem Joos".

Chomsky, of course, has never met an Islamofascist terrorist he did not
like. He is recycling his "theories" about the criticism of Syria being all
some US-Zionist-Imperialist conspiracy. (See
http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node.php?id=12362 and
http://blog.zmag.org/index.php/weblog/entry/motivations_for_terror/ and
http://blog.zmag.org/index.php/weblog/entry/state_terror_vs_resistance/.) It
is all part of the "Take a Ba'athist to Lunch" campaign being run by the
far-left, including the Cockburn crowd. (See
http://counterpunch.com/landau03022005.html and
http://www.counterpunch.org/barry03092004.html and especially this piece,
under the title "Echoes of Cambodia", in the magazine that runs the Khmer
Rouge's academic spokes-stooge as a regular columnist.)

On a personal note, I have long argued that people become leftists as a sort
of gesture of infantile rage against their parents. In the case of Chomsky,
the father of Noam was a fine Bible teacher, one from whom I took classes
back in the 1960s. Noam seems to have devoted his life to showing contempt
for everything his father held sacred and everything in which his father
believed.

The Bible? You know, that same Bible that contains those Ten Commandments
that the American Left is this week demanding before the Supreme Court be
prohibited from public display.

After all, the Left would not want people running around in public not
stealing, murdering or committing adultery. But the real clause that enrages
the leftists is that part about showing respect for your father and mother.

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My favorite line:
"People become leftists as a sort of gesture of infantile rage against their
parents."

Harry, Doug, Doug, Jim, bassie, et al...
Do you hate your parents?