Noam Chomsky Quotes
The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.
Chomsky, Noam. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs. South End Press, 2000.
The American concepts of democracy and human rights have been resented when U. S. policy advocated other nation’s adhering to them.
At the time our strongest allies in the Middle East were Monarchies, dictatorships, and Principalities. See {586706}
The Mexicans had to agree to whatever terms the United States demanded. President Polk wanted to annex California and the New Mexico territory (included Arizona) as well as other territory including Baja—a territory much larger than Western Europe. Trist watered down the demand and only included California and the New Mexico territory.
Despite a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other countries, America has frequently found a reason to make an exception to the policy and send troops to a foreign nation to shape the government in a direction to our liking. After WWII America also used covert operations to change regimes or destabilize governments perceived not in America’s interests. Sending troops to Western Hemisphere nations was continued as well but much less frequently than earlier.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
