Re: Chomsky: Bush Will Have to "Manufacture" Another Threat to Security

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:51:27 +0000, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:59:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (First Maje) wrote:
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>>On 1 Dec 2003 17:26:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>>U.S. Dissident Says Bush Needs Fear for Reelection
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>>Nonsense. Chomksy should know better.
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>>"It's the economy, stupid."
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>>Bush has all the fear he wants or will ever need. Over 80% of
>>Americans support his Patriot Act.
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>I tend to agree. I love Chomsky but he tends to downplay the
>importance of the economy in the machiavellian mind and overplays the
>fear factor. For me Iraq was a stone wall case of a war waged to
>rescue a struggling economy and stock market but Chomsky chose to lead
>on the psychological impact and the congressional elections as a
>reason. 

just had another thought. to always harp on about the economy is a
very Marxian thing to do and Chomsky doesn't like to appear Marxist
although he clearly ows a debt to his analyis as we all do.
Chomsky , being a linguist , has also studied a lot of psychology -
and debunked a lot it - and often discusses issues from this
perspective. He is a great expert on the PR and advertising industries
which owe their very existence to the psychological theories of Freud
as refined for practical uses by Eddy Bernays and Walter Lippman and
others.