Man I Dislike

Has this to say. Chomsky:

[Bush]He's more or less a symbol, but I think the people around him are the most dangerous administration in American history. I think they're driving the world to destruction. There are two major threats that face the world, threats of the destruction of the species, and they're not a joke. One of them is nuclear war, and the other is environmental catastrophe, and they are driving toward destruction in both domains. They're compelling competitors to escalate their own offensive military capacity—Russia, China, now Iran. That means putting their offensive nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert.

I would say that threat of nuclear annihilation was probably greater during the whole Cold War deal, andenvironmentall catastrophe business isn't going to hurt the human species greatly in the short term (long term different story). While I dislike the Bush administration greatly, the notion that they are somehow "driving the world to destruction" is just plain absurd and laughable, and sadly, I wouldn't expect anything less from the most-simple minded "intellectual" the world has to offer.