MIT professor and darling of the American Left Noam Chomsky on Lebanese television:

Interviewer: Do you consider Hizbullah to be a terrorist organization?

Chomsky: The United States considers Hizbullah a terrorist organization, but the term terrorism is used by the great powers simply to refer to forms of violence of which they disapprove. So the U.S. was of course supporting the Israeli invasions and occupation of southern Lebanon. Hizbullah was instrumental in driving them out, so for that reason they are a terrorist organization.

No, Hezbollah is a terrorist organization because they intentionally kill innocent civilians.  But Chomsky gets even more nutty.

It’s an interesting dilemma. Personally I’m very much opposed to Hamas’ policies in almost every respect. However, we should recognize that the policies of Hamas are more forthcoming and more conducive to a peaceful settlement than those of the United States or Israel. So to repeat: the policies, in my view, are unacceptable, but preferable to the policies of the United States and Israel.

So, for example, Hamas has called for a long-term indefinite truce on the international border. There is a long-standing international consensus that goes back over thirty years that there should be a two-state political settlement on the international border, the pre-June 1967 border, with minor and mutual modifications. That’s the official phrase. Hamas is willing to accept that as a long-term truce. The United States and Israel are unwilling even to consider it.

Hamas refuses to recognize Israel therefore to say Hamas accepts a two-state solution is pure lunacy.  After arguing that the United States is a terrorist state, Chomsky follows up his argument stating the war in Afghanistan following 9/11 should mean the U.S. should attack itself.

The first achievement of George Bush after 9/11 was to attack Afghanistan. Let’s take a look at what happened. The attack on Afghanistan was carried out for one explicit reason, because the war aim was stated explicitly. According to George Bush, any state that harbors terrorists is a terrorist state, and must be treated accordingly, by bombing and invasion.

It follows from that that George Bush is calling for the bombing of the United States. The United States harbors terrorists, violent terrorists, who are regarded by the FBI and the Justice Department as terrorists.

No, the attack on Afghanistan was carried out because the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden and they supported the entire Al Qaida network, the very same network that just killed close to 3,000 innocent civilians in the United States.   Simply amazing.

Video of Chomsky and transcript