Admittedly, I'm not someone who is very knowledgeable on the subject, but that is not what I got from the article at all. My read on it was that the US needs to be more diplomatic instead of forceful, and try to reach some sensible cooperation with China. That doesn't strike me as doing nothing? Also, as a non American, the "we're not special" narrative does resonate with me. American rhetoric is so often full of implicit superiority complex that does make the rest of us grind our teeth a bit. (The phrase that comes to mind immediately is public figures talking about "American lives" when what they should be saying is "human lives", another is calling for example, a black Englishman "African American" when he is neither African nor American). It's something that I suspect normal Americans are sometimes blind to, because it is so ingrained in the culture.

This is mostly name-calling, and you don't help your case by getting major facts wrong. Chomsky is no liberal, he has been the leading left critic of American liberals for over 50 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Power_and_the_New_Man...

As for the "80's and 90's" he's been writing this sort of article, IIRC, since 1940 or so, when he was 12.

I don't know what this has to do with Israel again, but there seems to be a pattern lately...

That said, I don't think Chomsky held back on that department. Not even slightly, on the contrary he is pretty outspoken about it. But contrary to what we hear from others, it is often reasonable.

It is a start to motivate people to hold their representatives accountable. Development and improvement can only happen here.

Chomsky is a liberal? ever since when?

> that there's no deep value the world gets from US hegemony, crumbling though it may be.

Jesus effing christ, this guy actually supports US hegemony... Kissinger, is it you?