John Gray (Zosokoneza za ukulu, Review, 11 February) akulemba kuti "n'zosatheka kupeŵa kunena kuti, kwa Chomsky, America ndiye cholepheretsa mtendere padziko lapansi". Izi ndi milandu ina yaukali (mwachitsanzo, zomwe ndikuganiza kuti US ndi yoyipa mwapadera, imatha kuthana ndi vuto lililonse padziko lapansi, ndi zina zotero) zimachokera pa mfundo yakuti kusonkhanitsa kwa ma Op-eds omwe amawunikira (Kupanga Tsogolo) kumayang'ana pa US. ndi ndondomeko ndi ndemanga zaku Britain, nkhawa yachilengedwe komanso yoyenera. Kusamveka kodabwitsa kwa malingaliro ake kumapangitsa kuti ndemanga ikhale yosayenera.
Grey amatsimikizira kuti sindikubweretsa "mikangano yosatheka" monga Iran-Saudi Arabia. Kwenikweni ndimatero, mobwerezabwereza. Chifukwa chake ndimakambirana za kutanthauzira komwe Saudi Arabia ndi mayiko ena achiarabu akuyitanitsa US kuti iteteze ku Iran, ndikuzindikira kuti ikutsatira malingaliro omwe akuti olamulira ankhanza, kunyalanyaza zisankho zoyendetsedwa ndi US zomwe zikuwonetsa kuti ndi malire ochulukirapo, anthu amawona US ndi Israel ngati ziwopsezo zazikulu, pomwe Iran sanatchulidwepo. Kutsutsa mfundo za US ndikwamphamvu kwambiri kotero kuti ambiri amaona kuti derali likanakhala lotetezeka kwambiri ngati Iran ikanakhala ndi zida za nyukiliya. Ndizophunzitsa kuti Gray sangathe ngakhale kuzindikira kunyozedwa kwakukulu kwa demokalase komwe kumawululidwa ndi machitidwe awa.
Grey amatchula imodzi yokha mwa 29 op-eds, yomwe imakhudzana ndi mutu wamakono wa "America's Defence". Koma amatsutsa kutsutsa kwa chiphunzitso chake chachikulu chifukwa "zimakhala makamaka za udindo wa ndalama popanga malamulo ku Congress, ... osati nkhani". Pamapeto pake, pali ziganizo zingapo pamutuwu, kutchulapo Zokambirana za Thomas Ferguson mu Financial Times za momwe machitidwe a Congress asinthira kwambiri kotero kuti omwe amapereka ndalama zambiri ku chipanichi amapeza maudindo - ndithudi nkhani.
Ndemanga izi ndi gawo laling'ono la kuwunika momwe "kutsika kwa America" kwadzipangira okha, zambiri zomwe zimakambidwa pomwe mutuwu ukuyankhulidwa. Nkhani yokulirapo ndi kuchepa kwa mphamvu zaku America kuyambira 1945, pomwe idafika pachimake - mpaka Grey "kuwunika kopitilira muyeso", m'dziko lenileni zowona zenizeni pazifukwa zomwe zafotokozedwa - mpaka lero, pomwe mfundo zam'mbuyomu zikadalipobe. kuthekera kozitsatira kwatsika kwambiri, ndikutsutsanso zomwe Gray amaneneza.
Gray akulemba kuti "US ikufanana ndi Latin America zaka makumi angapo zapitazo", mfundo yomwe sindingathe "kuimvetsa", ndikuyika malingaliro anga a "Americo-centric"; molondola kwambiri, chifukwa ndi zopanda pake. Kutanthauzira kosasinthika - kolondola ku chidziwitso changa, ndikunyalanyazidwa ndi Gray - kwaperekedwa m'bukuli.
Chochititsa chidwi kwambiri ndi kukwiya kwa Grey chifukwa cha kutsutsa kwanga pa mkangano waukulu pa nkhondo ya Iraq, yomwe, monga ndinanena, ndi yofanana ndi ndemanga ya Soviet pa Afghanistan m'ma 80s, kuyambira kuthandizira chifukwa chabwino mpaka kutsutsa "cholakwika". udindo Gray advocates. Ndikuvomereza kuti sindimagwirizana ndi zomwe amasilira chikhalidwe cha commissar - momveka bwino, koma mosakayikira.
Noam Chomsky, Dipatimenti ya linguistics ndi filosofi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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