So by your logic, because he is a linguist and often quoted, then we should all just listen to him and not question anything he says because of his "brain power"? Let me explain something to you, I worked at Fermi Lab for several years, and had to work/deal with physicst. These guys had the "brain power" that could solve an equation that would fill 3 black boards. The other side of the coin, they all lived on site, one guys wife had to make sure he got dressed in the morning or he would wander into work with what ever he had on when he went to bed. They all wore sandals, wanna guess why? They couldn't even tie their own fucking shoe's. Being an expert in one field doesn not make one an expert in all.
I'm speaking from Chomsky's intellectual perspective here. Whether Noam is able to fry an egg or wipe his ass while tying his shoes is irrelevant because none of them get people killed. Like I said on previous occasions, while at graduate school, one of the requisites I had to take was this political science class in which, on the first day, the professor handed out a text by Chomsky and told us that if we found any lies in his writings he would give us a straight A and need not take any exams. I spent months looking for the lie and found none. This guy's got a tight case. He's got a brilliant mind and has many people working with him analyzing many things. By contrast, everything that is said on TV is, in most cases, easily proved to be incorrect, at worst, or misinformed, at best, with a simple google search. Again, and as usual, you do not have to trust my word and I do commend you investigate it yourself.
I wish I could say "CNN is right, Kim Jong-Il is threatening unwarranted action against mainland USA"... but that just isn't the case.
That is what separates facts from opinion: Opinions can be right or wrong. Facts are ALWAYS right.
So, if we're going to war based on something, and that something is unwarranted threats from another nation with nuclear capacity then let's make sure that 1) The nation does own nukes, which NK does; and 2) that the representatives of that nation have made repeated
unwarranted threats to The People of the USA. That way we'll be able to spare ourselves from the "we didn't know" bullshit campaign that we get bombarded with after the usual MIC money-driven escapade. Unless # 1 AND # 2 are true then maybe we should stay home watching them lame-ass TV shows that we now have here in the Land-o-Plenty.