Re: Noam can't see the forest for the trees
Granted I haven't read Chomsky as extensively as many of you, but from the article at hand I can't see how one could seriously level a charge of anti-Americanism against him.
He doesn't suggest that all the ills of the Middle East are America's doing. He seems simply to be interested in painting us as human, not super-human, of having failings and being self-interested and sometimes doing the wrong things where other people are concerned.
The US is *so* powerful. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. But we need to be very aware of what we're doing...when we sneeze, the entire planet gets a cold.