Chomsky’s US home truths

The latest deconstruction of American foreign policy and domestic politics from linguist and political critic Noam Chomsky, Failed States is a superior curate’s egg - that is, fine in several parts, if somewhat overcooked (and undercooked) elsewhere.

The various parts, while not altogether a satisfactory whole, are loosely underpinned by a general, and hardly radical premise.

The US, like all powerful states, has consistently and historically put its own economic and strategic interests ...