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Abstract:
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The Backroom Boys is a dispassionate examination of official indifference and duplicity. Chomsky exemplifies this tendencies by focusing on the image of the United States, as reflected in Vietnam, and provides a devastating indictment of the way American power operates today. Through a close analysis of the Pentagon Papers, Chomsky outlines with great conviction the horrifying detachment and remoteness of those in power from the realities of Vietnam. The essay which follows, discussing implications of the Paris Peace Agreement continues this theme, showing how Washington, with the aid of the American press, has misrepresented these Agreements to the American public and in so doing has justified continued involvement in south east Asia. Noam Chomsky is acknowledged throughout the world as one of America's leading social critics and a major opponent of the Vietnam war.
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