What Chomsky gets right

America's record is actually pretty bad, especially in the Middle East.

This is the second in a series of posts on Chomsky, American foreign policy, and the question of hypocrisy. Read the introductory post here. Subscribe to receive future posts.

To go back to the beginning of my own political coming-of-age, the Iraq war exposed just how hollow our rhetoric about freedom and democracy actually was, particularly in the Midd…