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Title: The usual brilliance, the usual dark gaps and repetition
Review: Chomsky, as usual, is brilliant and lays out the facts so that the truth appears obvious: America is a terrorist state, run by terrorists as much as any other rogue government or out-law organization. In fact, its government more resembles the mafia than a government in the genuine service of its people. Chomsky tends to be repetitive, but so what. But sometimes he gets carried away, as in asserting, for example, that the Israel lobby is Christian, not Jewish - which is hardly the whole truth - making this reader, for one, wonder what his underlying motive might be for this obfuscation. The Christian zionists lack the political savvy and strategic thinking of their Jewish counterparts, who run the show. His work in linguistics likewise is brilliant - and not entirely workable. A streak of perversity in the brilliant mix.
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