Following the dramatic failure of the proposed national missile defense system’s recent test, the Senate rejected a proposal that would prohibit the Pentagon from deploying the system until it could prove it would work. Now that the Clinton Administration has the go-ahead, an impassioned debate has erupted over whether it should build the defense system […]
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a writer and a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books, including Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance.
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A Response
See “Thus Spake Noam” by Jeffrey C. Isaac and his counter-response I was intrigued by Jeffrey Isaac’s article, which quotes my demonstration of the moral bankruptcy of an argument that had been proposed (not by governments) for the NATO bombing of 1999. The demonstration proceeds by adopting the principle on which the argument rests, and […]
