Instead of thanking the Pentagon for his "honor, Chomsky, is said to be angry. The Herald quotes him as saying, "This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes.
Indeed! Nazi newsreels show Hitler's brown shirts igniting huge bonfires in German streets into which they pitched banned books. Hitler banned over 4,000 books ranging from anti-war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque to Jack London's "The Call of The Wild.
And just as Communist Russia wouldn't let its citizens read "The First Circle and "Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, comrades in the Pentagon refused to allow Gitmo prisoner Hamza al Bahlul to read Chomsky's "Interventions, sent him by a defense lawyer.
The Pentagon's ban mimics Iran's campaign to kill British novelist Salman Rushdie for his 1988 epic "The Satanic Verses. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeni indicted Rushdie as "blasphemous against Islam. The Pentagon, according to The Herald, won't authorize a book that is "anti-American, anti-Semitic, (or) anti-Western. Note the similarities of the Pentagon's objections and the Ayatollah's. Kissin' cousins, maybe? Some might suspect its Pentagon censorship that's "anti-American.
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