Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (ofte… - Christopher Hitchens

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Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations— he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.