Noam Chomsky: A Rebuttal

In addition to the monies gleaned from the American War Machine as a professor at MIT, gadfly and self described "parasite" Noam Chomsky has made a tidy sum for himself from a lifetime of assailing Uncle Sam for being one of the largest, if not the greatest, sources of terror in the world today. If we should subscribe to this way of thinking, then the history of the 20th Century would make little sense. Take the regions of the world in the last half of the 20th Century, rank them according to the extent of Uncle Sam’s intervention, by either foreign direct investment or arms and soldiers. Europe would be on top, Africa would be on bottom. Whether you measure the results by GDP per capita or the UN’s Human Development Index, conditions are worst where America has intervened the least, best where Uncle Sam has intervened the most.