Left wing professor Noam Chomsky: Ron Paul's foreign policy 'uncontroversial'

In a video posted on Youtube Sunday, left wing MIT professor Noam Chomsky said Ron Paul's foreign policy was "uncontroversial."

Chomsky was asked about Paul's assertion that the United States is basically responsible for the troubles in the world because of the presence of American bases.

After playing clips of Ron Pauls performance at the Tea Party debate where the Texas Congressman was booed for blaming the 9/11 attack on the United States, Chomsky weighed in.

"I think what he said was completely uncontroversial," he said, adding that it could be found in government documents and polls support the position.

He went on to cite a study conducted by the Wall Street Journal of what he called "moneyed Muslims" who said the same thing.

Chomsky went on to discuss what he called Israel's "criminal" activities, and claimed the United States committed "mass genocide" of Iraqis with sanctions in the 1990's.

Paul's foreign policy has come under attack by conservatives like Mark Levin, who called it unpatriotic and anti-American.  Paul has repeatedly called for friendship with the Islamic dictatorship in Iran, and has often claimed America's "occupation" and "900 bases" all over the world is the reason for all the trouble the United States is in.

The Washington Post Fact Checker recently gave Paul three Pinocchios for his claim of 900 bases in 130 countries.  Glenn Kessler wrote:

As evidence of the United States occupying “so many countries” or the “all this money” spent on the military, Paul’s statistics barely pass the laugh test. He has managed to turn small contingents of Marine guards into occupying armies and waste dumps into military bases. A more accurate way to treat this data would be to say that the United States has 20 major bases around the world, not counting the war in Afghanistan, with major concentrations of troops in 11 countries.