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On that occasion, he had explained that “public protest is a political act, to be judged in terms of its likely human consequences,” which included the likelihood that the American media “would distort and exploit it for their propagandistic purposes.”<ref>Unpublished interview, March 28, 1977; ''Language and Politics'' (AK Press, 2004), p176.</ref></li>
On that occasion, he had explained that “public protest is a political act, to be judged in terms of its likely human consequences,” which included the likelihood that the American media “would distort and exploit it for their propagandistic purposes.”<ref>Unpublished interview, March 28, 1977; ''Language and Politics'' (AK Press, 2004), p176.</ref></li>
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<li>More recently, Chomsky has promoted a conspiracy theory (now popularized in Oliver Stone's ''Untold History of the United States'') that [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] (national security advisor under president [[Jimmy Carter]]) secretly armed the Afghan mujahideen prior to 1979 in an elaborate plot to "trap" the Soviets. Brzezinski, however, has strongly denied anything of the kind,<ref>Interview, ''The Real News'', January 15, 2010.</ref> while Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman "insists that the State Department worked hard to ''dissuade'' the Soviets from invading and would never have undertaken a program to encourage it."<ref>''The Nation'', November 12, 2001.</ref>
<li>More recently, Chomsky has promoted a conspiracy theory (now popularized in Oliver Stone's ''Untold History of the United States'') that [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] (national security advisor under president [[Jimmy Carter]]) secretly armed the Afghan mujahideen prior to 1979 in an elaborate plot to "trap" the Soviets. Brzezinski, however, has strongly denied anything of the kind,<ref>Interview, ''The Real News'', January 15, 2010.</ref> while Cyrus Vance, Sr.'s close aide Marshall Shulman "insists that the State Department worked hard to ''dissuade'' the Soviets from invading and would never have undertaken a program to encourage it."<ref>''The Nation'', November 12, 2001.</ref>
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Needless to say, declassified records from the time are at variance with Chomsky's fantasy. (It is likely, given the crucial Soviet role in initiating the Korean and Vietnam wars, that this claim is the product of projection.)</li>
Needless to say, declassified records from the time are at variance with Chomsky's fantasy. (It is likely, given the crucial Soviet role in initiating the Korean and Vietnam wars, that this claim is the product of projection.)</li>