perfidy

Over at Oliver Kamm's excellent blog, I found a delightful attack on Noam Chomsky. Here is a choice excerpt:

If Chomsky's normative judgements are perverse, his empirical ones are - I search for the most neutral word I can find in the circumstances - ahistorical. He asserts, for example:

Kennedy invaded Cuba and then launched Operation Mongoose leading right to the missile crisis which practically destroyed the world.

...This type of thing is typical of Chomsky's work. To those who are unfamiliar with history, Chomsky's political writings might seem a rational and informed case. Yet when you strip away the invective you're left with little but heroic assumption, tendentious assertion, egregious omission and even outright fabrication. Unfortunately, historical literacy is an increasingly scarce condition, and Chomsky has managed to build a large constituency on the strength of it among those of college age.

The whole article, indeed the whole blog is informative and well written. Joe Bob says, "Check it out!"