I haven’t seen anyone comment on this truly bizarre exchange between General Peter Pace and Tim Russert on this week’s “Meet the Press”:
MR. RUSSERT: Mr. Jafari said that one of his favorite American writers is Professor Noam Chomsky, someone who has written very, very strongly against the Iraq war and against most of the Bush administration foreign policy. Does that concern you?
GEN. PACE: I hope he has more than one book on his nightstand.
MR. RUSSERT: So it troubles you?
GEN. PACE: I would be concerned if the only access to foreign ideas that the prime minister had was that one author. If in fact that’s one of many, and he’s digesting many different opinions, that’s probably healthy.
I have my doubts that Pace has any idea who Chomsky is, much less that he’s read him. Frankly, I doubt Russert’s ever read him.
Watch what you read.