# The USA should stop policing the world **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 15, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738 "2015-02-15T19:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738/101 "2015-02-26T19:41:06Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Chomsky is a loon. There’s nothing you can learn from him (outside of linguistics). . . . His linguistics are loony, too. ---
**Author:** ![BOOM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@BOOM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BOOM)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738/102 "2015-02-26T20:35:12Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Chomsky is a loon. An Internet Intellectual has spoke. You should spend time commenting on Youtube, they’ll love your analysis there. It’s not worth the time of either of us, so I’m sure you’ll forgive me if we don’t speak again. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738/103 "2015-02-26T21:01:04Z")
> [@BOOM](#): > > An Internet Intellectual has spoke. You should spend time commenting on Youtube, they’ll love your analysis there. > > It’s not worth the time of either of us, so I’m sure you’ll forgive me if we don’t speak again. So, all it takes to get you to never engage with a poster again is to call Chomsky a loon? 😛 Well, the guy is a loon, and even if he wasn’t he’s kind of yesterdays news at this point. That you brought him up at all in a drive by post is sort of telling in and of itself. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738/104 "2015-02-26T22:22:27Z")
> [@BOOM](#): > > An Internet Intellectual has spoke. You should spend time commenting on Youtube, they’ll love your analysis there. > > It’s not worth the time of either of us, so I’m sure you’ll forgive me if we don’t speak again. I guess I inadvertently sinned against the Third Commandment of left-wing critics of the United States – Thou shalt not take Noam’s name in vain. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738/105 "2015-02-26T23:27:09Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > His linguistics are loony, too. _Thank you_, my Language Acquisition class in college was filled with his theories and every one of them seemed like the rantings of a crack pot- heavy on philosophical circle jerking and light on evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738/106 "2015-02-27T00:01:06Z")
> [@BOOM](#): > > An Internet Intellectual has spoke. You should spend time commenting on Youtube, they’ll love your analysis there. > > It’s not worth the time of either of us, so I’m sure you’ll forgive me if we don’t speak again. You are going to get very lonely if you stop speaking to every smart person that thinks Chompsky is a loon simply because he is. BTW, the word you are looking for is ‘spoken’, not ‘spoke’ and Internet Intellectual is not a proper noun so it shouldn’t be capitalized. Now there is some real education for you. You are forgiven. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usa-should-stop-policing-the-world/712738/107 "2015-02-27T03:53:50Z")
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