This is required listening ...

This interview was done yesterday, December 18th -- it runs about 56 minutes, but is worth the time... this is perhaps the first discussion of Iraq I've heard since we went in there that actually makes sense -- even Ente Grillenhaft would approve ... clear, calm, with a sense of context, perspective and reality -- and posits a definite and what might be the ONLY workable solution to the situation there (altho I have serious doubts that Bush and Cheney et al would enjoy it)

From Information Clearing House


Chomsky on Terror and Iraq

An interview by Andy Clark

Author and activist Noam Chomsky joined Amsterdam Forum this week and took questions from listeners from around the world on Iraq and the War on Terror.

Transmission date: 18 December 2005

Noam Chomsky is professor emeritus of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is world renowned as a linguist and political activist. His latest book is 'Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the post 9/11 World.'

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This was sent to me from Sweden by a long-time, valued friend, Steve Bennett, a brilliant classical musician (clarinette), who is also an insightful gatherer of non-musical information (I've actually known that for some time.)

Thanks Steve.