[Peace-discuss] Chomsky on Syria and Clinton

[Carl G. Estabrook]

That’s not quite right, Mort:

[1] Chomsky is hardly "a strong advocate for future President Hillary”: he makes the reasonable case for lesser-evil voting in the abstract and then on that basis suggest a vote for Clinton in swing states, while he (in Massachusetts) votes for Stein; but many of us disagree that Clinton is the lesser evil. 

[2] He’s actually been quite outspoken this year as in years past on US war in the Mideast - if rather dismissive of the significance many are attaching to the presidential election, e.g. - 

"My feeling is that [voting is] a decision but it's the kind of decision that's kind of tenth order. I think it should be made in five minutes... Most of the time it's a very small decision, maybe if you can, you just have to compare the alternatives and see if there is on balance any difference but it doesn't seem to be a fundamental question.”

He has for years argued that oppositional politics cannot be a matter of voting and then going home…  —CGE


> On Oct 27, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Deplorable!!
> 
> Not unexpected, since he’s been a strong advocate for future President Hillary. He’s been relatively quiet on all  this until now. 
> 
> Perhaps AOTA should change its adulation…
> 
> —mkb
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