Chomsky Backpedals on "Silent Genocide" in Afghanistan: "In December, Noam Chomsky continued to spin his 2001 claim that U.S. military action in Afghanistan constituted a 'silent genocide' that would result in millions of deaths in that country. Chomsky wants to engage in Clinton-esque parsing of his words, so lets revisit what Chomsky said prior to the U.S. initiation of hostilities against Afghanistan."