I checked one item in this post against the text (which is
here: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/7706-distortions.html
The slaughter by the Khmer Rouge is a Moss-New York Times creation.
The context for the statement is not, as is implied by the
extract above, a general denial of mass
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32730] RE: Chomsky: A man of great integrity?
MS concludes:
One should not judge the morality of NC's statements at the time by
how well they accord with what is known retrospectively, in light of
the reality that the sources on genocide were not trustworthy.
Untrustworthy
Max,
As you note, Chomsky and Herman admit there were sharply
conflicting assessments at the time. The question is why they chose to
disparage those assessments that suggested a genocide was underway. I would
suggest it is because doing so was consistent with their politics - which
still today
On 4/12/2002 11:53 AM, Steve Diamond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The remarkable thing is how exactly this mirrors the approach of the U.S.
Government when it chooses facts to fits its politics - as it so shamefully
did in the case of Rwanda. (By the way I can find nothing that suggests
that
Stephen Diamond:
that Chomsky ever stated that he was wrong in 1977.) The failure of the
left to establish a credible independent foreign policy opposed to the
politics of both the U.S. government and those of regimes like Hussein's,
Castro's, Lee Kuan Yew's, and Kim il Jung's is a tragedy
