Noam Chomsky - 'Assad Is Facing Assassination No Matter What Happens'

[sage]

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President Obama is the major human rights violator. He is directing a global assassination campaign which is a major atrocity. I mean if Russia were doing anything like that - people would be talking about having a nuclear war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle33609.htm

[Gopher]

He's certainly earned the privilege. He won't be missed.

[SemiAuto]

Seriously? Obama has his kill list but he doesn't need to put Assad on it. That list already has a substantially long waiting line. Assad is a dictator and like many before him he runs the risk of being strung up by his own people. Obama doesn't need go to the trouble.

Chomsky is out to lunch on this one.

[Gopher]

Seriously? Obama has his kill list but he doesn't need to put Assad on it. That list already has a substantially long waiting line. Assad is a dictator and like many before him he runs the risk of being strung up by his own people. Obama doesn't need go to the trouble.

Chomsky is out to lunch on this one.

I didn't get the sense from the transcript that he was suggesting Mr. Obama do it. It's probably either his friends or his enemies in Syria that would likely snuff him. Besides, Mr. Assad in not an American citizen so he's probably not on the list.

[flyboy56]

Noam Chomsky is about as far left as one can go and to condemn Obama for human rights violations is certainly a strong disapproval from Chomsky. But we know this is not new to most of us who are following Obama's methods of killing people in someone else's country. Talk about arrogant.

[flyboy56]

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/14/op...ss_igoogle_cnn

(CNN) -- Four years ago, John Brennan withdrew from consideration for C.I.A. director because of his leadership role there while serious human rights violations were occurring, including waterboarding and secret detention. Mr. Brennan has said he regrets these practices. Yet he moved from the CIA to the White House, where he began to support a practice many consider worse than torture: targeted killing.

Brennan has been a champion and defender of attacks by C.I.A. drones that have killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children, far from any battlefield. These killings have occurred in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has recently said the killing is likely to expand to Libya, Mali and Nigeria.

Panetta, Brennan and others in the Obama administration defended these lawless killings the same way the Bush administration justified the unlawful treatment of detainees. Officials in both administrations have sought to win public support and overcome opposition by repeatedly asserting that what they are doing is effective and lawful. The tactical parallels are striking.

[SemiAuto]

Noam Chomsky is about as far left as one can go and to condemn Obama for human rights violations is certainly a strong disapproval from Chomsky. But we know this is not new to most of us who are following Obama's methods of killing people in someone else's country. Talk about arrogant.

My opinion of Noam Chomsky is about the same as that of Louise Farrakhan. They're not people I take seriously. Even if he finds a nut he is still a blind squirrel.

[flyboy56]

My opinion of Noam Chomsky is about the same as that of Louise Farrakhan. They're not people I take seriously. Even if he finds a nut he is still a blind squirrel.

Certain courses I took in college mentioned Chomsky and the socialist work he does. His ideas are very radical. And for him to condemn Obama for his human rights atrocities speaks volumes which is why I posted (#6) a link to a CNN article which slams Obama on human rights.

[Spot72]

Assad is not winning the fight against the rebels, but he's not losing, either. Assad's new found confidence is mostly due to the floundering vision of the west and irregularities in their approach and very little with the opposition's public support, determination and courage. Some say the west is failing the newly formed democratic coalition in three strategically important fronts.

Humanitarian support for the besieged Syrians in and out of Syria, maintaining a crippling and punishing sanction regime against the Baathist coalition, and over emphasis on the role of Al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria which has astonishingly tilted the balance in the favor of Assad's coalition by endorsing his argument of war on terrorism. Regrettably he seized on the west's paranoia and came out of his hole and took full advantage of space handed to him and successfully maneuvered to corner the west and earned a significant psychological score.

Humanitarian aid to refugees in Turkey and Jordan as well as besieged Syrians in the country has so far been quite insignificant and clearly disappointing. We should remind ourselves that these people have once had access to an stable life but gave it up for freedom. A rare sign of courage and hope that some say has been overlooked by the west. They gave up the dead calm of Assad's despotism and its fatal stability and show no desire to return to the old order unless defeated. Some individuals in that part of the world believe that the West is wrong to risk the fate of millions who will defend their freedom against Al-Qaeda for the sake of curbing the possible threats of a very few by contemplating a negotiated settlement with Baathist coalition. I have no intention of underestimating the risk of having chemical weapons in extremists hands but we're only fooling ourselves if we think Al-Qaeda has no knowledge of building a rocket that carries a lethal chemical compound and the infamous clip of a dog exposed to chemicals in Al-Qaeda camps underlines that. However it is possible to minimize their influence by drying their financial resources and direct them to the Syrian Freedom Army.

[TheResearcher]

Gnome Chompsky needs to do stand-up. I'd go.

[Contumacious]

Assad is not winning the fight against the rebels, but he's not losing, either. Assad's new found confidence is mostly due to the floundering vision of the west and irregularities in their approach and very little with the opposition's public support, determination and courage. Some say the west is failing the newly formed democratic coalition in three strategically important fronts. .

1- Firstly, what goes on in Syria in none of our Pho King business

2- Secondly, we are bankrupt many times over

3- Thirdly, the events in Syria were initiated, and are being manipulated, by the Mossad and CIA.

4- 'nuff said

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[flyboy56]

A contingency plan calling for 75,000 soldiers will be needed to protect the chemical weapons stockpile in the event Assad's regime crash and burns. I wonder who will provide those troops?

[llubon]

Assad is a walking target....... no list needed, no government needed

[flyboy56]

Iran or Russia will pluck him and his family out of Syria at the last moment.