Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan (Post-9/11)

Chomsky on the invasion of Afghanistan and our moral responsibility. Date: 10/18/2001
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[@tangobear3536]

Anybody who asks a 300-word question is not interested in the answer.

[@josiahkatomd6149]

They are just putting their point across.

[@naseemahmad123]

The truth is that you are not interested in listening his point 😂😂

[@basedlocation3738]

@@naseemahmad123 📌

[@naseemahmad123]

@@basedlocation3738 📌

[@confuseman4430]

Because his point was stereotypical

[@playerkingofnewyorkcity2581]

That robber hiding in a mansion analogy is so hilarious and very reflective about how the Americans just assume they own the world and their role as the world police.

[@collydub1987]

I thought exactly the same.

[@michaelfiedler1419]

True, we're Murica the best country that god ever created.. Just the assumption in itself is so ridiculous. After ww 2 the US really hasn't done a single military mission that made the affected country a better place. It's time to get rid of Nato and other military alliances alike and to enhance the United Nations instead. The US as well as any other country will have to fully follow their rule, no exemptions.

[@exhainca]

Americam exceptionalism is basically another term for incorrigible obnoxiousness.

[@pipster1891]

He wasn't in that mansion anyway, he was in the mansion next door.

[@95Bartlett]

@@michaelfiedler1419 It’s really bizarre that NATO didn’t disband after the USSR collapsed, it’s the entire conceit of that military alliance.

[@johnwu222000]

The kid was obviously well indoctrinated by the American exceptionalism.

[@rypoelk997]

probably a spoiled ivy league "future leader with lots of promise". one doesn't acquire an inflated ego like that by themselves with no help.

[@tvted6160]

The kid was put in his place with history and education. Love the response. ❤️👏

[@drproteus9102]

Was that a young Cucker Tarlson? Was that his Obama trump correspondence dinner moment?

[@francisvazquez13]

@@drproteus9102 Wrong , that was Potatoe Head Biden ...

[@jonathanwiggins5366]

@Oyyy Veyyyy He's not though

[@therealsideburnz]

"6000 people are dead." I wonder if he knows how many Afghan citizens are dead at this point, 20 years later. Or if he even would care?

[@HumanTypewriter]

Has he ever indicated that his position has changed?

[@andreaerling7614]

At least 100.000 civilians, at least! amongst them many many women and children killed by US/NATO drones. This western military adventure has never been about building schools for girls etc. etc.

[@mynameisthis1580]

He probably didn't really care that the 6,000 people died.

[@HumanTypewriter]

@@mynameisthis1580 Where do you two get the idea that he doesn't care?

[@Humanaut.]

depending on the source, 50, 70 or 100k afghan civilians dead. 2021

[@zakshah3480]

of all the days to revisit this exchange.....now is perhaps the most sobering

[@Mikathedog100]

I'm here too....inbetween re reading Caravans, by James A Michener.

[@adammarkowitz7944]

If you're accustomed to seeing the now-quite-elderly Chomsky, often cranky and with half the speaking voice he once had---you're in danger of forgetting that he[along with Howard Zinn, who might be mentioned here] has been one of our great activists, and assets, for decades. He has been a force for good since before many in the discussion were even born. Much love to you, sir.

[@jujijiju6929]

He's not really cranky though, maybe a little more animated or passionate sometimes. He never really shows impatience or anger

[@billweir1745]

@bubblebeam "Again" hahaha

[@bekobilli8053]

@bubblebeam It's called common sense you df,

[@brianmyers8785]

@The Right Australian hey, look! Mel Gibson weighs in with a bit of antisemitism.

[@alowen5340]

You guys know about the Brit think tank which deals with mass mind control - Tavistock Institute for Human Relations? Ole Chomsky is a member ;)

[@MrChicobomb]

Chomsky"s rebuttal aged like a fine wine , thank you for posting.

[@BlueHen123]

Hilarious, he questioned IF Osama was behind 9/11 when every intelligence agency knew it was him 10 minutes after the attack. Poor Noam, never wants the bad guys to suffer.

[@Bigwave2003]

@@BlueHen123 What kind of investigation and evidence gathering goes into "everybody knowing" someone did something ten minutes after the event happened? Why didn't they stop it if they were following things so closely? Sounds more like we all agreed to point to him as the scapegoat.

[@bekobilli8053]

@@BlueHen123 Intelligence agency🤔, like Sadam,s wmd right, this is not about whether he was guilty or not its about the right to inavade a hole country just to prove that 😉

[@MrChicobomb]

@@BlueHen123 Like totally

[@MrChicobomb]

It's as if there wasn't an over 40 plus year of USA history in Afghanistan , but you're making total sense. Cheers.

[@rypoelk997]

We all knew Chomsky was going to skewer him before he even finished his "question"

[@trickydicky2908]

"If its wrong when they do it, then it's wrong when we do it" Noam Chomsky.

[@medoz3]

How obvious and yet how deep and no group is really willing to submit to it

[@ruthtruthinireland]

Noam Chomsky is such a wise, calm, accurate, insightful and educated man... He's one in a million.

[@chetonabaaz7298]

Master of deceiver

[@businesscat4435]

His son is pretty cool too

[@Mortum_Rex]

@@chetonabaaz7298 That is not a grammatically correct sentence. Go and improve your English first and then come back, and we'll discuss the intellectual gap between you and Chomsky in a language we can both, hopefully, understand.

[@chetonabaaz7298]

@@Mortum_Rex great player.plays from both side like spending huge money for both napoleon and british by khazar banker.

[@Mortum_Rex]

@@chetonabaaz7298 Yeah I know. "I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches" -- Mohammed Daoud Khan, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1953 to 1963)

[@fjordhellas4077]

Noam Chomsky, you have always been the voice of reason and wisdom, something totally missing in American domestic and foreign policies.

[@nevermindshort3]

Well it is not lack of reason. What USA does is perfectly reasonable and beneficial if you are Halliburton, Boeing or Lockheed Martin. Then it makes perfect sense. To everybody else it makes zero sense.

[@martiansurgery]

Its easy to sit back and criticize - how does an American intervene in American foreign policies, WHEN IN FACT it is companies like Halliburton, Boeing or Lockheed Martin THAT actually CREATE and set foreign policies

[@jb-vb8un]

Chomsky compares the media coverage of the two genocides and makes the case that one (Cambodia) was played up because it suited the interests of U.S. elites and the other (East Timor) was played down because it did not. In other words, there was "benign terror" which suited U.S. foreign policy interests and was ignored, and there was "constructive terror" which it suited U.S. interests to pay close attention to. Now, all this shows a lack of sensitivity to Cambodian victims, but Chomsky's main interest in clearly in exploring his "propaganda model."

[@pappapaps]

​@@jb-vb8un Only if you put those words in his mouth. I'm sure he didn't say that the Cambodian genocide was "played up", but that it received focus where East Timor did not.

[@jb-vb8un]

@@pappapaps source, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK

[@staatsfeindlich9939]

Noam is always the voice of informed reason

[@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200]

American hero.. Everything he says the attitude can be found in Paine and Jeffersons writings.. In my view hes a real patriot trying to clear up the conscience of his country

[@nancysanders2398]

Very well,stated.عبد القادر Beauty & H

[@sinatra222]

Nah he's full of shit

[@billweir1745]

@@sinatra222 How profound.

[@fabricioguido8202]

Chomsky never shows mercy against these people.

[@TheUnseenRapper]

Nor should he...

[@Jharrycornelius]

At least he doesn't kill and maim anybody

[@Phil_Mitchell]

Hitchens destroyed Chomsky.

[@ivancheremmaus824]

@@Phil_Mitchell did they ever debate? that would be amazing to see. or are you referring to something else?

[@chillende]

How so? I've read the exchange, and by my reckoning Hitchens did no such thing.

[@mangoesboy]

It's the bravest act to tell your own people that you are wrong. The more difficult it is when you are the minority voice. Tried doing it in a small way, but it is really difficult. Chomsky you not only provide me a moral strength but also the bravery. ❤️

[@hklinker]

I was listening to the young guy asking the questions and laying out the scenarios/analogies ..and I was thinking that I could never remember all his questions if I were the one who had to answer. But then, I don’t have a Chomsky brain.

[@marcweeks9178]

I think Chomsky was helped by the fact that he's heard these same arguments before, some maybe even related to other topics. It reminds me of Bill Cosby's (sorry) old routine about playing handball against an old guy. Cosby would hit a shot and the old guy would just "walk to a spot" and smash the ball in return. That's what Chomsky's doing here, just walking to a spot.

[@matthewroberts6833]

It's easy to know when you see the point from 1,000 miles away. For all his blustering the inquisitior was as predictable as the tides.

[@berrytoothy435]

Righttt omg I lost track after the robber inside the mansion thing

[@DrKay-kt8oz]

Dear Professor Chomsky, You have always been 100 years ahead of American general public.

[@HumanTypewriter]

Yeah. It's kinda his job haha

[@roshi98]

A classic moment where the smartest person in the room is obligated to answer bad-faith or ill-informed questions from the guy who wants to be perceived as the smartest person in the room.

[@phnelson033]

And notice how eagerly fawning/applauding the squids' cohort rightwingers were -- based simply on the perception that his questions SOUNDED like well-reasoned logic. That encapsulates Lil' Ben Shapiro's dim audience entirely...just impressed enough by his slick fraudulence -- to not just buy into it, but to childishly claim some imaginary victory was thereby achieved.

[@briancordero7674]

The youngster was feeling himself shadow boxing until he got punch in the mouth by the old man ,Noam Chomsky.Stay in school

[@alwynsam5349]

It's a tall order even for established, experienced to best Noam..he never really had a chance :)

[@shivainvalidos6873]

"Let's say hypothetically..." Goes on a 2 minute monologue asking a billion questions just to find 1 thing to "own" him on.

[@specialknees6798]

It's called a gish-gallop, and It's probably the most annoying tactic to argue against, because usually you can't possibly respond to every single stupid thing they said

[@fuckyoutubeusernamechange]

@@specialknees6798 They just keep coming at you with their stupidity until you stop talking and they would claim victory, lol

[@chillende]

And doesn't even do that! 🤣

[@billweir1745]

@@specialknees6798 Which makes it even better that Chomsky has such great recall that he answered all of his questions in order.

[@richardquinn72]

LOL...true.....that ''2 minute monologue'' felt like a 1/2 hour diatribe being delivered by a soon-to-be Ex. Dude was trying that shotgun approach of ''throw everything at him and see what sticks"....Chomsky still prevailed though...I salute his cognitive skills to sort through all that excess verbiage.

[@asilver50]

I respect the fact that he corrected the guy asking the question without belittling him.

[@jamesdebearn4362]

This is a classic. Only ever heard the audio before.

[@_artorical_]

“President George Bush rejected as ‘non-negotiable’ an offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan.” (14 Oct 2001)

[@kierangallagher315]

Name your source! Where does that quotation come from?

[@TheRangerFox]

@@kierangallagher315 Every american news outlet reported on this at the time. If you look up the quote it's exceptionally easy to verify. Bush had every opportunity to work with the Afghan government to avoid war, and chose to avoid it because it furthered US military interests to do so.

[@scoutmahdi6107]

@@kierangallagher315 Fun fact, Taliban actually proposed to send Osama to the UN court for trial even before US invaded. But the US didn't want to talk because they don't "negotiate with terrorists". And after 20 years they hand over the country to the same terrorists with whom they didn't want to negotiate even at the cost of a war and death of thousands of people.

[@darknase]

@@kierangallagher315 How about highlight the text and right mouse button and click "search google for ..."? Well as you are obviously a computer illiterate person, thinking that thing under your desk or in your hand is just a fancy deck of cards, either that or you are a dishonest shill, here some links that come up with it: www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/world/nation-challenged-president-president-rejects-offer-taliban-for-negotiations.html www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/bushaddress_092001.html webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:piFB4VomUOcJ:www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.attacks15oct15-story.html+&cd=4&hl=en& edition.cnn.com/2001/US/10/14/ret.retaliation.facts/index.html www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gna/Quellensammlung/13/13_freedomandfearatwar_2001.htm georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/bushrecord/documents/Selected_Speeches_George_W_Bush.pdf p.73 ADDRESS TO THE JOINT SESSION OF THE 107TH CONGRESS UNITED STATES CAPITOL WASHINGTON, D.C. SEPTEMBER 20, 2001

[@HarryS77]

@@scoutmahdi6107 The Taliban refused an earlier UN order to extradite bin Laden for the 98 embassy bombings. It was later revealed that the Taliban had in fact made several counter offers to turn bin Laden over to a kind of multinational Muslim tribunal, which the US in turn rejected.

[@ActivelyVacant]

This question goes for so long I couldn't remember what he was asking in the first place.

[@scott3462]

This is a debate strategy, very common among politicians.

[@theblock2424]

Chomsky: “Don’t mess with me, boy. Run along.”

[@karuonline3294]

the gall on that kid to think he was going to school a titan like Chomsky

[@zuesr3277]

Here after taliban took over afghanistan

[@kreek22]

Here after Pakistan took over Afghanistan.

[@nancysanders2398]

Yes,how Is it,that Pakistan has nuclear capability,as well as India,how is that" possible?"

[@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517]

Because the US helped Pakistan to get it

[@kreek22]

@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 Wrong.

[@kreek22]

@@nancysanders2398 For Pakistan: Help from China, Europe, N Korea--and some native talent, some native money. For India: native talent and money, with a very minor assist from Canada.

[@Rubylove48]

The fact that the Taliban was willing to have conversations about turning over bin laden alive which Bush and Obama refused is a critical point and overlooked in most discussions. It’s good to be reminded of it.

[@DSE75]

Yep, "wanted dead not alive," is how the poster would read. For obvious reasons. Or worse, not really wanted at all.

[@blahzorl]

if you want to see more on that, theres a good 2004 interview that jeffrey and cockburn from counterpunch did with Kabir Mohabbat, search for "how bush was offered bin laden and blew it" in CP

[@Rubylove48]

@@blahzorl great, thank you. Only started reading counterpunch recently. But will surely check out your recommendation 🥂

[@andydavis3075]

You are correct it should be mentioned more but, people often forget the u.s didn't just want bin laden they wanted al qaeda as well.

[@Ecstaticgoat]

In short : America, you need to mind your own damn business. Go fix the roads and highways, go provide free education and take care of your veteran's first..

[@albertwoodeasy9021]

Veterans First!

[@OrthodoxAtheist]

If they had done that in 1942, millins more of us would be speaking German. Rather than minding their own business, I'd rather America just be a little more selective in military use.

[@Humanaut.]

@@OrthodoxAtheist Just... a little.... Like don't invade every 2nd country they come across ... It's true what you say about ww2, but germany was seriously getting out of hand and being the agressor. America doesn't even need an excuse anymore nowadays.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

How about we stop creating veterans first. The Lions share of everyone's collective tax dollars already go to the active and veterans. The country is killing itself feeding our military adventurism.

[@francisvazquez13]

Very well said...

[@Englsh129]

Been watching sir chomsky for the past 20 years and watching this today after the US military has been running out of afghanistan his insight into things has just been astonishing.

[@newinhuman]

its ending where it started no less... when the us and russia destroyed kabul

[@robertmcdonnell3117]

His analogy really tells a lot of how American's view their role in the world. They are the government that ultimately can 'cut the power' going to the house they don't like. All other countries are simply houses in the neighbourhood administered by the US.

[@nesm2831]

"Let's be concerned with what we do and what we can do."

[@Zainiology]

An intellectual giant

[@kreek22]

He only looks that way to pygmies.

[@darkranger116]

Seriously though. A great mind for great clarity

[@llaurita2]

You left off jackass

[@billweir1745]

@@llaurita2 Did he hurt your feelings?

[@llaurita2]

@@billweir1745 no, but clearly I hurt yours.

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Oh my God. I am speechless. Thank you Sir I am more than honoured.

[@geoengr3]

Wow. That "question" was a 2-minute diatribe.

[@davidjorgensen877]

And the answer was a 6-minute Hitch-slap.

[@Demention94]

He liked the sound of his own voice apparently. Haircut doesn't help the braindead.

[@Rubylove48]

If this were today, this dude would set up a podcast to seem relevant and to lecture ignorance to the masses.

[@markbryant4641]

I'm pretty sure he's still working fulltime at the University of Arizona. He's a a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics.

[@Rubylove48]

@@markbryant4641 I’m talking about the dude in the suit, not prof Chomsky. I’m aware of Chomsky’s work thanks ✌🏽

[@markbryant4641]

@@Rubylove48 Oh, I see. That guy seemed very nervous. Perhaps a little peepee trickling down his trouser leg.

[@marcweeks9178]

Paging Ben Shapiro...

[@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200]

This student sounds like sam harris "it would all be so easy if our enemies werent such naughty boys" 😂😂

[@tonywords6713]

lol fuck sam harris

[@kjmps999]

Ok I hear you, but......... let’s do a thought experiment...

[@salahelhaddad4872]

Yeah fuck sam harris

[@sunset2.00]

taliban has every reason to invade US and free them from economic inequality as we all know afganistan has one of the lowest econmonic inequality except they will not as they dont have white man's burden

[@vif3182]

@@sunset2.00 " white man's burden" and what would that be excactly?? I don't think Taliban has an actual reason to invade any other country, as mush as USA has to invade others (especially done when it is in the name of 'democratic freedom'. Let them decide, or else it's just rude).

[@laopang91362]

I am impressed by he remembered all the questions in the order presented. I am also impressed by his answers.

[@adrianobulla7875]

The guy gives me the impression of a cocky upstart student who thinks he can outsmart Chomsky... Anyway, his reply is enlightening, as usual.

[@WalrusMan7777]

Ben Shapiro vibes 🙄

[@BaronVonGreenback1882]

"Not to have read Chomsky is to court genuine ignorance" Nation Magazine.

[@jamishmcquo7590]

-little tribes halfway across the world fighting each other with rocks and sticks "alexa, increase military defense spending by 300 trillion dollars"

[@SD_702]

It's an easy viewpoint to say today, but in 2001, they attacked us here.

[@hammadsait4626]

​@@SD_702 no they didn't u fool

[@lordlee6473]

Taliban was welcome back again, in most places outside Kabul. But the western media only focuses on Kabul, because that’s where the privileged Afghans live and there was no drone killings or night raids happening.

[@tribalque2232]

Most of the people fleeing are fleeing because it is the 7th poorest country in the world and they want to go to America, not because of Taliban.

[@CP-ir3ft]

idk about that. most ppl are forced to because they have no choice.

[@sayfrunner]

@@CP-ir3ft "forced"?

[@dershittalkpodcast]

@@tribalque2232 You‘re like the dude in the video. You don’t know anything. Afghanistan’s mountainous regions are full of precious resources. By the way: Which woman seriously wants to live under the regime of the Taliban. Women basically don‘t have any rights there but to stay at home. Most of them even get raped by the Taliban. You must be ill to think that people would welcome that bullshit. Western media messed with your head

[@tribalque2232]

@@dershittalkpodcast What the people of afghanistan fear most is war. That includes women who risk seeing themselves or their children blown up. The Taliban have already shown that while they are not good, they are rational and they wouldnt have survived for 20 years without decent support from the civilian population.

[@soinas-ii]

Chomsky humiliating the emotional pseudos.

[@alexanderjackson9302]

I think that student cried all the way home and called his mother..

[@kierangallagher315]

So you idolise Chomsky? How sad.

[@alexanderjackson9302]

@@kierangallagher315 never said that nor does the comment suggest that. I merely made a statement regarding how ignorant the student was by how his view of the topic was. Kinda like yours but at least he had some what of a valid point. Yours is just based on assumptions coming from such a fragile ego.

[@kierangallagher315]

@@alexanderjackson9302 Chomsky's reply begs so many questions that would probably occur to a half-intelligent person. He says the Taliban could solve a lot of problems by disappearing! And will they? What a delusional, self-congratulatory way of looking at the world. Refering to the Russian invasion, Chomsky says why did a Russian not criticize what the Afgans are doing to each other? Why not criticise stonings, beheadings, child-marriage etc? He says the relevance of our view of the Taliban is zero. Perhaps redundant if we can remove them from power?

[@billweir1745]

@@kierangallagher315 Who's your idol. Ayn Rand?

[@conservativehawk]

The guy asking the questions sounds like a slower speaking Ben Shapiro. But Chomsky is just too honest and sharp. Love the man!

[@chillende]

He appeared to have Shapiro's disingenuousness too. Chomsky mauled him.

[@kreek22]

Leave bin Laden be! He has human shields, and we can't risk them. Ah, the moral radiance of this saint.

[@mikev4621]

Chomsky : " you wanna play chess ? I know a few moves"

[@ecoworrier]

Just a tip if you ever listen to Ben shapiro on KZbin... Settings, Playback Speed, 0.75.

[@janswimwild]

The calm voice of informed wisdom, this needs to played repeatedly over the next few months. We need to hear this very loudly and clearly. Thank goodness for Chomsky’s relentless commitment to truth and political responsibility.

[@erupendragon7376]

This reminds of university in Texas. Students are self absorbed, bloodthirsty, killer bots ready to activate on not so secret key words.

[@Bigwave2003]

If this happened today, the right-wing student would continue talking over Noam Chomsky's response and hector him with conspiracy theories.

[@angelbythewings]

I am so happy for him, he is one of the very fortunate people who can see his children grow old with him.

[@siriusvenus8708]

Get that smug Yuppie, Professor Chomsky!

[@richardambrose7856]

For every Einstein or Hawking who discovered how things in this realm worked and what to do with such knowledge, there are people like Chomsky who discovered the goings on in this realm and why these things matter.

[@MrBeen992]

POOR GUY. HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH JACKET AND TIE WITH A DAYS REHEARSED QUESTION JUST TO BE HANDED HIS BEHIND IN A PLATE POINT BY POINT

[@stevejoseph4514]

Wonder where the questioner is today? Probably working for the Heritage Foundation or something

[@ferdinandgarcia2433]

That's Ben Shapiro and Pete Buttigieg's time-traveling son

[@venciborisov5156]

He is a fine sample of modern American politician. Arrogant, opinionated, treating other nations as an object's.

[@timursulaimanov2550]

It is amazing how one person’s voice of reason can shape the public discource of not just one country but entire world. It is a pity we don‘t have another person like Chomsky.

[@z_f609]

The kid memorized the question really well!

[@conker690]

“How would the American government react in this way” well based on Waco...

[@dbxlbruh]

Those people who don’t ask questions but state their ideas on and on

[@Rachel-ux9zk]

“Poor Afghans will suffer”…they’re 100% worse off 20 years later…

[@shaheenshad5012]

Cause nobody in their right mind thought there would be an evil empire that would impose sanctions on a war torn nation.

[@sha22276]

They are worse off due to the economic sanctions placed by the west including the seizing of the Afghan central bank reserves. It is this blindness which plagues your analysis.

[@scott3462]

I remember studying the history of Afghanistan for about 20 minutes. The invasion had overwhelming support and we tipped one side of a civil war with air strikes an special forces. I was the only American I knew who was more afraid of the American response than further terrorist attacks. This kind of stupidity went down so easily it was just like a speedbump on the way to attack Iraq. We had the power to target an individual inside a country and we failed to find him. 20 years of military adventure as a political replacement for the cold war.

[@Nerfunkal]

You weren't alone I was just 14 and nobody cared what I thought, even less than they care now lol.

[@whyalwaysme2522]

20 years not of political adventurism, 20 years of profit for military industrial complex. Never Mind the dead bodies and trail of destruction.

[@generalterror2457]

There's another problem with the analogy of the house and the government. You have assumed that the USA is the government and the house is Afghanistan. So, the USA/government is the provider/guarantor of safety of the neighbourhood in which the house/Afghanistan is present. And that the USA/government is sending it's police/military into that house to take care of the 'problem'; a problem which the USA had itself created. In this manner, you have already assumed the supremacy of the USA/government and that the residents of that house need to comply by the government's rules, policies and demands. The people asking these kinds of questions and making these analogies are high on their 'western superiority complex'; that we are the 'good' people, the 'police', the 'Superman' etc. The real world is nothing like this rather quite the opposite as it's a reality that wherever there is conflict in the world now, there is almost always a direct or indirect US involvement.

[@alimajid8118]

One of the best professors

[@Arthuro1776]

Interview aside...VHS Recorder is still tracking today 🤓😂

[@innerlight4601]

"we know exactly were he is" Okay, but do you have jurisdiction over there ?

[@markplain2555]

After he killed 6,000 Americans on 9/11? I think the answer is yes.

[@jeffdaniel1000]

This aged very very well.

[@foadahadi]

Sir, Noam Chomsky is such a gentleman - love from #Afghanistan

[@alviwajahat]

Voice of reason.

[@kreek22]

Yes, very reasonable to let terrorists run free. Well, they're running free today in Afghanistan once again.

[@billweir1745]

@@kreek22 How many times does it have to be said? We are not the world's police. Piss off with that shit.

[@kreek22]

@@billweir1745 Your communist cult leader in the video above was saying America ought to refrain from striking at Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Doing such a strike is not police work, it's military defense work. The idiocy of Bush/Obama in following that strike with the occupation is a *different* issue.

[@billweir1745]

@@kreek22 Retaliation and defense are not the same thing. And didn't they offer up Osama Bin Laden on multiple occasions? How about the shitshow of Iraq? Obviously we never learned our lesson from Vietnam, and had our asses handed to us yet again by a tiny faction of an army compared to our completely over bloated money pit of an army.

[@harukrentz435]

That young guy is no longer young guy, hopefully hes become a wiser mid aged guy today.

[@geoycs]

Good question, even better rebuttal.

[@bobbysbluebooster]

Boy this hits different today knowing what we know.

[@edwardjones2202]

Beautiful soul...if only it could blaze forever

[@djtan3313]

Live long, Master Chomsky.

[@pepelemoko01]

Turned out they got wrong the house, he was in the next-door neighbors' house. (he was there for nearly 11 years)

[@pepelemoko01]

Then the house got turned into a drug house, supplying 90%of the world's heroine.

[@eugeneduplessis140]

"your enemies are not necessarily our enemies" Nelson Mandela 1991

[@Sail-away]

I wonder where is the guy asking questions now?

[@a.e.1965]

One interesting thing I found is that in the 20 year occupation Afganistan was like a limbo, half dead, half alive, confused and aimless, In the video he talked about the starvation crisis and now after 20 years that NATO went out they are right back to start with exact same problems,

[@abacussin]

Failure by design me thinks. there needs to be future wars to sell future weapons.

[@francisvazquez13]

Is this young guy the speaker, the judge and prosecutor? What a piece of art 🤔

[@kevinmackfurniture]

A slanted ten minute diatribe of a question... Immediately Rebutted in the first 4 sentences. Questioner Still believes he owned Chomsky. Conservative Punditry in a nutshell.

[@PravinDahal]

Conservative punditry, dipshit? Last I checked, both liberals and conservatives are war-hungry.

[@kevinmackfurniture]

@@PravinDahal ...Who exactly Started this War on terror !?.... Oh that's right... A Republican.

[@PravinDahal]

@@kevinmackfurniture And who would that be?

[@Eric-ye5yz]

There is this arrogance of Americans to compare other countries with America. People of another country don't do that. They compare yesterday with today. If today is bad but better than yesterday, then today is better. Tomorrow they hope will be better still. But it is ridiculous to say, if you adopt capitalism, you will be like America. Or the reverse of that is you are not as wealthy as us because you don't adopt the American way.

[@bekobilli8053]

The irony 🤣 in the end they got him without having to inavade a hole country 😂😂😂

[@hula4483]

Do you honestly believe that? C'mon man. Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11. He was a CIA asset (Tim Osman) that outlived his usefulness so they made him into the ultimate Boogie Man. He died of natural causes well before they claimed to have killed him. Did you ever notice the supposed Bin Laden videos kept showing different looking Bin Ladens who seemed to age in reverse?! lol. Or how about this one... they conveniently dumped his supposed "body" into the ocean after they supposedly killed him in Pakistan before any verification could be done. Yeah, that makes total sense! You gotta be as naive as the kid asking questions in this video to believe the whoppers we were asked to believe about Bin Laden. First lesson: Never believe anything coming from the MSM.

[@AH-vc3hb]

@@hula4483 take your pills

[@hula4483]

@@AH-vc3hb Only pill i've taken is the red one. Enjoy your comfy blue pill fantasy prison where the MSM engineers your reality for you.

[@samanthataylor1761]

Anyone who takes on Noam Chomsky is absolutely brave. This man is a walking legend, an encyclopaedia.

[@iltafkhalid5146]

Chomsky rightly said regarding handing over of Osama to US and Talibans offered 3 options: - try him inside Afghanistan - try him in a few Muslim countries (dont remember the names) - try in international court of justice But US simply rejected this offer and went for a full fledge war. And after 20 yrs, everyone saw precious lives lost, huge money wasted and last but not the least credibility loss for US and NATO.

[@kzinful]

Noam took down every point that was hurled at him, that was truly amazing. And for me was this: Noam doesn't hate America that young man does, sadly, that rhetoric echoes to this day.

[@a1autobuild112]

So what was the question?

[@exenrontexas]

Please discuss the TAPI pipeline and the close relationship with the TAPI project leader, ENRON CORP and BUSH. The Taliban came to Houston in 1997 to negotiate with ENRON to facilitate the pipeline. ENRON was Bush's NUMBER ONE supporter in 2000.

[@vanhetgoor]

This first minute is spoiled by a person who doesn't know the difference between a question and am oration. Furthermore it doesn't seem like he is waiting for an answer but for a conformation of his bias.

[@callumfrench163]

NC point get close to drawing a distinction between Nation (abstract entity) and the republic and its democracy, citizens and structures of doing (him and questioner). Am a bit close or a bit off? I think close.

[@SpiritualStuntman]

I cannot possibly imagine the hubris this man must possess to put these questions to Noam Chomsky with such an attitude.

[@cosmicgiraffe4071]

The kid posing the question legit looked and sounded like a psychopath... holy

[@panthera50]

Nothing will change.

[@jonhennemann4729]

I love that quote "What the NY Times tells us" If that is anything close to reality.

[@c.s.7097]

Literally everyone has an agenda. Got to get your reports of starvation from somewhere

[@jonhennemann4729]

@@c.s.7097 Good point. For example you can use calories to judge poverty. I am 50's and in the 70's look at pictures and you can see how skinny average people are.and now we are fat. One can say we must be better off as the average high school graduate is 20 pounds heavier. That must mean they have ate more food.

[@kyleprather7228]

Well their not always wrong. The media have broke plenty of stories that have exposed govt corruption or lies sadly we often listen to wannabe dictators like our last president and pretend that all media are crooks, meanwhile the Afghan papers spelled out this disaster of a conflict we started and ended like intellectual midgets

[@kyleprather7228]

So we empowered jihadis in the 80s, starved them out after 9/11. Blew the fuck out of the place a year later, ignored all the leaders who helped us defeat the Taliban and al queada, shipped in over humdred thousand US soldiers to occupy their cities, backed corrupt Afghan govts and hoped this would lead Afghans to trust us in rebuilding their nation? Wtf.

[@carlmclemore6104]

@@jonhennemann4729 lmao, you are so far off, it's stupid.

[@LoveAllAnimals101]

He could be holding this seminar today.

[@maasam3106]

Perfect answer some how He was aware of ground reality!

[@Ed-zp2xo]

Is that Michael Falk from The Onion?

[@richardrosebealprestonjohn3144]

Thumbs up! Noam!

[@maslahadow1440]

now after two decades of war usa lost over 3000 of their solders, 20+k injured solders and over 2.2triliion $ lost and taliban now controls all afganistan

[@Flippy_Nips]

Afghanistan was never the US's to control to begin with.

[@geoffreybarrick9052]

Hey kid, the US trained the core fighters in the Taliban to fight the USSR in the 70's and 80's. What did Americans think these guys would do once we stopped giving them cash? Oh, wait, we didn't even know we were fighting there at the time.......

[@sherrycanon7582]

And....after centuries of religious and political unrest in the Middle East it was time to accept the things their own citizens refuse to fight to change. Not America's cross to bare....never was.

[@sinatra222]

Longest question ever

[@susim4503]

Is he asking a question or stating a treatise?

[@chillende]

He was bloviating, no more no less.

[@kreek22]

You'll notice Chomsky's response was more than twice as long. Well, you would have noticed if you weren't a Chomsky cheerleader.

[@susim4503]

@@kreek22 And if you had any intelligence at all you would realise the length of time each spoke had nothing to do with my comment.

[@Dee-zy5gh]

@@kreek22 Fun fact. Answers are normally longer than questions. Fun fact 2. People who do not see the depth of Chomsky's words are normally stupid.

[@BazookaToe]

I’m just here to adjust the tracking.

[@ElisabethArana]

August 2021 Mr Chomsky is right “Talibans could solve lots of problems by disappearing and I’m strongly support that” … shocked by what the hell is going on there. Extremely worried for my 14 million Afghan sisters and the children. 3 Billion deal selling US weapons it’s is done so US withdrawal. Hell in Earth.

[@ohje7517]

questions should always be concise imho in the interest of a satisfactory answer and so as not to bore the listeners.