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Noam can be a bit of an argumentative dick sometimes. Plus, he's flat out wrong on some things; like the Libyan Rebels not wanting military intervention, they've been pleading for it for a week now.

The title is misleading, he isn't really warning against intervention (as he states clearly in the video), he's saying that we (the West) aren't being asked to intervene.

paxman comes across as a tit in this.

pxmans voice tonality and presentation stile is just cheesy now, also not realy apropreat fir such a quite relaxed interview.

>> ^sepatown:

Noam can be a bit of an argumentative dick sometimes. Plus, he's flat out wrong on some things; like the Libyan Rebels not wanting military intervention, they've been pleading for it for a week now.


I don't think he comes across as augmentative he pretty much just states facts and goes over historical events which is accentually his bred ad butter ( researching past historical activity of countries) pax man is the one been all emotive in a stupid way.

@sepatown

Noam is describing, in detail, how the narrow-minded, fanatically beliefs of the wealthiest & most powerful humans are directly responsible for all the exploitation, oppression & general death [plus possible extinction] of the ENTIRE rest of the species..
[a fact/condition that any caring peaceful human should be indignant about]

And you're complaining that he's being too argumentative about that? o_O?

Did he really ask him how something made him feel?

I think Noam does a good job here. He stays calm and explains everything he wants to say in detail. He also makes sure to point out that WE ARE at fault in a lot of areas. He also explains why and when we should get involved and reasons why we should not.

The interviewer is a putz ("Why haven't you mellowed out?" WTF is he even asking that?). However, on the Pakistan/Afghanistan issues... I don't think Noam is very useful here. He says we're doing the wrong thing and possibly promoting the disturbance in Pakistan; which is true in many ways. But, I have to point out has been there a long time and the biggest spark came from the initial time we went into Afghanistan and we were linked with their president by having their government work with us (this was A spark, but the "instability" was already there). Just look at Pakistan with India.

I know exactly what he is talking about in Afghanistan, as I see it happening as well. However, pulling out won't change it (maybe lightening the situation for a decade or so--with a large human death toll) and may eventually make it worse. Pulling those troops into northern Iraq makes slightly more sense, while leaving "hit crews" in Afghanistan just to throttle down any power that will form in the vacuum.

Or we just saturate the hell out of it (like we should have done in Iraq; that, or never have gone there--I'll change my mind on this if the region, from Egypt to Iraq forms fairly stable democracies). But, that won't happen until a second term, as usual...

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