I agree with Professor Chomsky on many issues but he got it totally wrong on Syria. Should we intervened at early stage ( like what the opposition and Syrian people kept begging us to do ) by arming the Free Syrian Army and providing aerial cover for them ( NFZ) then tens of thousands of souls could be saved. By lack of decisive leadership we made it very disastrous to Syrian people and complicated to us. Now FSA had to fight both Assad and his Hizballah mercenaries and Al Qaida forces in the north. History will witness that our leadership failed miserably on Syria and sometimes you need a president like Bush who talks the talk and walks the walk.
deathtokoalas
the united states has been intervening the whole time, on the side of the saudi-backed rebels. if it weren't for that american intervention, there wouldn't be a conflict there in the first place. the issue is over escalation, not intervention.
the question displayed the ignorance of the interviewer, and old noam would have taken him to task for it in his clearer-minded years.