This segment from Noam Chomsky's ‪UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011‬ is edited to increase the speed, remove pauses and compress the time.☺ â–' It's useful to recall how isolated the US and Europe are. The non-aligned counties, which is most of the world, they have for years been vigorously supporting Iran's right to enrich uranium. Within the region, as I mentioned, the irrelevant public even strongly favors Iranian nuclear weapons. The major regional power, Turkey, voted against the latest US sanctions motion in the Security Council, along with Brazil, which is the most admired country of the South as polls show. â–' Turkey's disobedience led to sharp censure at that point but not for the first time. Turkey was bitterly condemned in 2003 when the government committed a major crime, it followed the will of 95 percent of the population and refused to take part in the US-British invasion of Iraq and that demonstrated its very weak grasp of democracy which led to sanctions! and sharp censure. â–' Same today, after the 2010 Security Council misdeed, Turkey was warned by Obama's top diplomat on European affairs, Philip Gordon, that it must demonstrate its commitment to partnership with the West, follow orders in other words. A scholar with the Council on Foreign Relations asked, "How do we keep the Turks in their lane?" "In their lane" means following orders like good democrats, our style democrats. â–' Brazil's Lula, was admonished in a New York Times headline, he was warned that ...
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