Michael Pugliese wrote:
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> > From the New Criterion:
> >
> > The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky
> > by Keith Windschuttle
> > [...]
> > Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous American intellectual to
> > rationalize the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

When Windschuttle writes rationalize, dores he mean explain, or does he
mean justify?  If he means explain, why doesn't he write explain, since
explain is a better word. If he means justify, then his essay is
balderdash, since Chomsky didn't try to justify the attack.

What I think is that Windschuttle meant justify and knew that he would
be libeling Chomsky if he wrote justify, so he wrote rationalize, which
can mean explain but which normally means justify. I also think Michael
knows this.

martin

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