Is the 'Noam'...?

Is the 'Noam' in 'Noam Chomsky' the same as the 'No Am' in 'No American policy can be supported'?

Just a thought - to introduce two book reviews you should read today. The first is Nick Cohen's review of Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (via Harry's Place); in which Cohen says of the left:

[M]illions abandoned their comrades in Iraq and engaged in mass evasion. If you think that it was asking too much to expect it to listen to people in Iraq when they said there was no other way of ending 35 years of oppression, consider the sequel... [T]he Kurdish survivors of genocide and groups from communists through to conventional democrats had the right to expect fraternal support against the insurgency by the remnants of the Baath Party. They are being met with indifference or active hostility because they have committed the unforgivable sin of cooperating with the Americans. For the first time in its history the Left has nothing to say to the victims of fascism.

The other review is by Michael Burleigh and of William Shawcross's Allies: The United States, Britain, Europe and the War in Iraq. Burleigh writes:

William Shawcross is one of a handful of European intellectuals who have bravely resisted the Gadarene rush to condemn Bush and Blair for liberating a country accurately described as "a prison above ground and a mass grave beneath it".
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The battle in Iraq is between the remnants of a regime based on mass murder, aided and abetted by Al-Qaeda pirates, and coalition forces who, in addition to maintaining security, are struggling to repair the infrastructure and to help shape civil society. To frustrate that mission, the powers of darkness have killed not just American soldiers, but such figures as Brazil's Sergio Vieira de Mello who bravely decided to put themselves in such terrible danger. Let's hope that Shawcross is right in believing that the coalition leaders have the will to stay that particular course. If they don't, we will all bear the terrible consequences.

Burleigh also refers, in passing, to 'the BBC, which every evening almost wills coalition failure in Iraq'. (Hat tip to Dan Jones.)