It could be helpful to read Chomsky's answer to such objections:

"Thus in every society that I know of, surely Stalinist Russia and the West,
intellectuals feign great indignation over(often real)crimes of official
enemies and are silent, dismissive, or apologetic about those of their own
states, those for which they  bear some responsibility and those they
could help mitigate or overcome if they were honest(leading, as they know,
to loss of respectability and privilege). The most elementary moral
principles would lead to "playing up" the crimes of domestic origin in
comparison to those of official enemies, that is, "plying up" the crimes
that one can do something about. But that elementary moral principle is so
utterly foreign to commissar culture that anyone who expresses it simply
calls upon him/herself instant denunciation as an apologist for the enemy's
crimes. That is a reflex of the commissar culture, in Stalinist Russia, in
the United States and England, etc. for good, instituional reasons."

(In Robert F. Barsky's:Noam Chomsky: A Life Of Dissent. ECW Press, 1997, P.
178.

Hamza Al-Mozainy

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> I aree with you, Tresy.  It seems that sometimes
> Chomsky's passion for criticizing the US leads to
> unfair judgements, with both sides of the case not
> equally weighted.
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