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Hakan and FDW ...
might as reply to both here, you both said essentially the same thing.
From what I gather then ... life is a switch or black and white. I can't lop off the fringes because all I'm left with is Howdy Doody in the middle?
Sorry ... but you can cut 20% of the fat off both sides and still have a lot of nice meat in the middle to work with (about 60% if my math serves). That's all I'm saying.
If you're saying I'm guilty of preconceiving that Chomsky is pretty left leaning then guilty as charged, though I don't think anyone would disagree with that would you?
Many shades of grey in the middle to choose from on both sides.
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Late to the discussion, but this strikes me as off the mark. If you think about your basic position in the scheme of the world view on Israel, Iraq, US foreign policy, etc, you probably find your own opinion firmly in the loony tunes 20% (based on my gut feeling, but I suspect worldwide support for what Israel is doing is very low, i.e. less than 20%). If my assertion is correct that the mainstream world view is as above, your position should be tossed out as part of the fringe, as defined by worldwide opinion.
Anyway, since I doubt you think your own position is loony, yet it is on the fringe by one measure, I think you can see why ignoring the fringe is a poor way to get a grasp on issues. My own 'sniff test' is to toss out anything that strikes me as illogical, massively complicated, etc. from either party. Obviously this creates an issue if there isn't enough info to evaluate the motivation of one side or the other, but at least if you have enough info you have a possibility of getting the truth of a situation.