Untouched on a high pinnacle of nobility

Noam Chomsky rejects Mearsheimer and Walt's Protocols Paper. It's not an easy read - Chomsky, a Deep Grammer zealot, would do his readers great kindness by employing a little more everyday, garden-variety English Grammar.

To be sure, he applauds the authors' willingness to brave the hysteria of the Intellectual Herd (apparently Zionists to a man). His main grudge is they seek to displace responsibility for the great evil wrought by The Great Satan (TM) onto a minor incubus, thereby leaving "the US government untouched on its high pinnacle of nobility...".

Contrary to Mearsheimer and Walt, he feels that US Policy has been remarkably successful for those in whose interests it has been pursued - the oil companies.

I think Chomsky is overly gracious in being so sparing of the US government. He places the blame for US Imperial Policy at the feet of an apparently all powerful Energy Lobby, leaving the good people of North America smelling like roses. Apologetics, thats what I call it.

We learn that Israel's main contribution to US Middle Eastern policy was to crush secular Arab nationalism by defeating Nasser. Damn! The roots of secular Arab nationalism must run pretty shallow if a few million Jews sitting in the desert can emasculate it in six days. And what on earth did Israel create all those Palestinian Universities for - to become centers of Islamic religious thought?

Finally, Chomsky rejects the Islamoleftist argument that Washington Neocons are isomorphic with the Israel Lobby. Apparently, with Democracy sprouting like Palm Trees across the Middle East, he refuses to give credit where it's due.