Connections, Episode 1: The Biden Administration and the Middle East with Noam Chomsky
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In the inaugural episode of Connections Podcast, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani interviewed Noam Chomsky to discuss US foreign policy in the Middle East under Biden. The interview examines the Biden administration’s Middle East policies, explores elements of continuity and change in US policy towards the region after the Trump years, and discusses what recent developments regarding Iran, Yemen, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia portend for the coming years.
Always insightful to listen to Noam, thank you both.
45:19 The great sociologist Max Weber made a distinction between the ethics of intention (what you want ultimately to happen) and the ethics of responsibility (what you know will happen in specific decisions). He also said that human life exists in the tension of these two ethics. Here Chomsky (in intention hard Left) opts for the pragmatic ethics of responsibility. It is an excellent example of what Weber was talking about in his teaching on human existence and the tension of the two kinds of ethics. The Left would do well to take this lesson to heart.
I seem to like this distinction. If I understand it correctly, however, doesn’t “the ethics of responsibility” resonate with the pragmatic moral precept that the litmus test of of whether a particular course of action is right is its workability? I’m not sure, but I have an inkling that this distinction and the philosophy of pragmatism are somehow related.
@@ahmadalhaysh3721 That’s my understanding too. Unfortunately for me, many of my colleagues think I’m reactionary for holding such a pragmatic view.
The part about Afghanistan 39:20
One of the few people on the left atm who is able to say something intelligent about Afghanistan
"one of the few people period".. The right is insane and the left has been prostituted.
39:37 onwards: on US withdrawal from Aghanistan
Why did no one listen to Noam Chomsky!?!?
Sadly the corporate controlled media here in the US rarely give people like Chomsky an opportunity to express their views. This is why many of my fellow Americans are so ignorant of the many evils of American foreign policy which is essentially dictated by big business interests.
Chomsky can buy all the tv advertising he likes. Just like everybody else. What's your point?
Generation to generation people will admire this living legend. He is a treasure.
Noam Chomsky is a legend. A legend in the name of peace and truth. It is sad that these quality people are now sadly in the American administration.
Starts at 2:54
You're a hero my friend
The legend
I wonder what Chomsky has to say about Afghanistan situation
He's bored shitless with Afghanistan and America.
He just won't say it.
@exe cutiee where?
@exe cutiee check out his conversation with Laurence Krauss
The comments on Afghanistan: ua-cam.com/video/htLMIMwne1E/v-deo.html
Before I attempt to listen to this whole video can you please tell me at what minute Mark of the video does he discusses the Biden's Administration: judges him personally as a president and person and where does he address bidens mental decline. Thanks
And guess what chomsky was absolutely right the taliban immediately took control of the afghanistan after their mistake of withdrawal
Date of the interview, please?
March 17 2021
Come back online, Bernard.
March 14 2021 Noam did not think a drawdown of US troops made sense in Afganistan. Unusual position for "ultra liberal"?
In hindsight, we see it would have been the better decision.
When it came to turkey invading kurdish areas , the interviewer got uncomfortable lol. Typical!
So he's using the whole "women's rights" talking point to criticize trump from withdrawing troops in Syria ? 😂😂🤡
34:38 The right wing is so ridiculous, literally shameless.
39:50
Why is that man not president of US?
Because that man has NEVER sought ANY kind of real Public Service Position, that entailed actual responsibility, in his life-Ever!
Instead, that man has spent his life merely criticizing everyone else from the sidelines, about fields that he has never had the cojones to actually work in himself-Which is everything outside Linguistics-like the worthless gutless armchair critic that he is!
THAT'S Why! SMH
@@mck1972 You've failed to see the role of a philosopher. Philosophers write and spread thoughts. That is the whole point of philosophy. People in positions of power do not write philosophy like that, because their time is taken up with other things that preclude such things.
@@NoahsUniverse ,
The original poster asked:
' Why is that man not President? '
So if everyone spends their lives just, ' philosophizing ', from the sidelines, like Chomsky, but never accepts responsibility for making decisions, and taking action, like those, ' in power ',
-Then how would anything ever get done?
@@mck1972 Nietzsche said it best... The philosopher is born to be a philosopher, and only very few will ever hear out the philosophers in detail, because only very few people care enough to read them. Very very few people are meant to be philosophers.
@@NoahsUniverse ,
That is very, ' philosophical '.
But it does not change the fact that IF everyone was like Chomsky, then nothing would ever get done...
What the fuck are we gonna do when he's gone?
The only boomer I will listen to hahaha
His kids are boomers. He was born in 1928!
Greatest generation almost
Boomer? He was born before the Great Depression
If he hates the system so much how can you bath in it make money from it and shine on the fringes of it..another self serving man..
Noam is a capitalist selling his opinion to communists.
I am an American. That does not mean I should not be critical of our foreign policy or for that matter anything I find unjust within our country. Only delusional and dishonest people think "we Americans can do no wrong"
@@robsimer9296 Your a man that thinks outside the box and someone whos sees the truth.. Its sad when you see educated people who want to help in the world go blinded back into the stupidy of socialism on a communist scale.
There was a saying in Ulster during the civil war and i think when you see through the shite of these political stances it says it all.
" To those who understand no explanation is needed to those who dont. no explanation is possible"
@@vijaykrish803 That still doesn't mean you have to side with an old fool like Chomsky.
Gandalf is real!!
Thesis:
US and its alies - evil
Everyone else - saints
Got it
Softball
When all this began I was 18, had recently discovered Noam Chomsky, Neil Postman, Howard Zinn.....and Arundhuti Roy. This is an article that blew me away at the time which was written shortly after 9/11
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/29/september11.afghanistan