There has been some spirited and hardhitting editorialisingagainst the ‘pathologicalphotocopies of the antiquated Noam Chomsky’. It seems perfectly justified tojoin issue with the visceral hatred of the US at everypretext. That some of the critics are conditioned not to think otherwise renderstheir diatribe inconsequential. Charging their morality as suspect would belegitimate as they take a blatantly one-sided view of world events. However, weshould not fall into the same trap and paint all those who seek a review of theUS behaviour in the international arena as unreconstructed pinkos. We riskthrowing the baby with the bathwater.