Post Scriptum to numbers please

[susan gilbert]

because i have this annoying ,to most  friends, argumenative streak, but i
am endeavoring to change old annoying habits, so instead of thinking up a
scurllious comment , new me says, how could we really learn what the true
reality of life in the sudan is for the ordinary  man , then the caustic
remarks could be saved for more personal issues, such as yo mama jokes ,eh?

> From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
> Organization: Organization? What organization?
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:53:53 -0600
> To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> Subject: Post Scriptum to numbers please
> 
> Chomsky's rhetoric in this paragraph about
> the enormous toll of lives in the Sudan is
> so powerful that it made me overlook the
> strong possibility that the sick Sudanese with
> their patiently saved stock of dinars bought
> their medicine from some other source. It was
> the pharmaceutical factory's private owner who
> sustained the loss. I think I read that the
> owner is in the process of successfully suing
> the US for damages.
> 
> So the enormous toll of lives may not only
> not be enormous but could possibly be totally
> imaginary with NO Sudanese having died because
> the factory was bombed save of course the
> unlucky night watchman.
> 
> It is depressing not to be able to take Chomsky
> as an honest political commentator because his
> theory of generative grammar puts him among the
> greatest scientific figures of the 20th century.