Tresy Kilbourne wrote:

> . . . . . . . . . . Meanwhile Chomsky is willing to risk that thousands of
>civilians, US or otherwise, will get VX dumped on them while we spend
>years trying to bring these people to justice? If he is, he should have
>the courage to say so, or expect that people who live in the real world
>will see his rhetoric as armchair moralism made risk-free by the umbrella
>of force he professes to despise.
>

Good point, and well said. The last two weeks have been extremely
entertaining and overflowing with rhetoric. If there is any simplistic
moral high ground to be had, I'm sure Professor Chomsky owns it. He's not
into Sudan-bashing, he's into U.S.-bashing and this is where great gains
might be made.
There are a lot of subtleties: Sudan is not a signatory to a
chemo-bio-warfare pact of any kind; you don't need military quantities of
VX  -- a gallon or two can be made on a desktop.

The problem to me with Tresy's quote above is that it works for the citizen
of just any coercive nation-state that is capable of bullying and willing
to do so.