Noam Chomsky has very specific views (some of which I strongly disagree
with) but here I find myself in some agreement. However, he does insult
Churchill, perhaps unintentionally because he has a little understanding of
wartime Britain.

DAS

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> "The operative concept of democracy is revealed very clearly in other
> ways as well. Perhaps the most extraordinary was the distinction
> between Old and New Europe in the run-up to the Iraq war. The criterion
> for membership was so clear that it took real discipline to miss it. Old
> Europe -the bad guys- were the governments that took the same stand
> as the large majority of the population. New Europe -the exciting hope for
> a democratic future- were the Churchillian leaders like Berlusconi and
> Aznar who disregarded even larger majorities of the population and
> submissively took their orders from Crawford, Texas. The most dramatic
> case was Turkey, where, to everyone's surprise, the government actually
> followed the will of 95 percent of the population. The official
> administration
> moderate, Colin Powell, immediately announced harsh punishment for this
> crime. Turkey was bitterly condemned in the national press for lacking
> 'democratic credentials'. The most extreme example was Paul Wolfowitz,
> who berated the Turkish military for not compelling the government to
> follow
> Washington's orders and demanded that they apologize and publicly
> recognize
> that the goal of a properly functioning democracy is to help the U.S."
> - Noam Chomsky, Z-Magazine, Feb 2005
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