Post Scriptum to numbers please

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Chomsky's rhetoric in this paragraph about 
the enormous toll of lives in the Sudan is
so powerful that it made me overlook the
strong possibility that the sick Sudanese with 
their patiently saved stock of dinars bought 
their medicine from some other source. It was 
the pharmaceutical factory's private owner who 
sustained the loss. I think I read that the 
owner is in the process of successfully suing 
the US for damages.

So the enormous toll of lives may not only
not be enormous but could possibly be totally 
imaginary with NO Sudanese having died because 
the factory was bombed save of course the 
unlucky night watchman.

It is depressing not to be able to take Chomsky 
as an honest political commentator because his
theory of generative grammar puts him among the
greatest scientific figures of the 20th century.