James A.. Donald wrote:
> : : To continue, high US officials cited by the
> : : highly-respected Asia correspondent of the (eminently
> : : respectable) Far Eastern Economic Review predicted that 1
> : : million would die as a consequence of the US bombings. US
> : : aid officials leaving Phnom Penh when the KR took over
> : : predicted that two years of "slave labor" would be
> : : necessary to overcome the effects of the bombing.
>
>
> : : provided analyses by highly qualified specialists who have
> : : studied the full range of evidence available, and who
> : : concluded that executions have numbered at most in the
> : : thousands; that these were localized in areas of limited
> : : Khmer Rouge influence and unusual peasant discontent, where
> : : brutal revenge killings were aggravated by the threat of
> : : starvation resulting from the American destruction and
> : : killing. These reports also emphasize both the
> : : extraordinary brutality on both sides during the civil war
> : : (provoked by the American attack) and repeated discoveries
> : : that massacre reports were false
>
> Presumably the "at most in the thousands" is a highly imaginative
> interpretation of Nayan Chanda, who said nothing of the kind. As to where
> "repeated discoveries that the massacre reports were false" comes from, no
> one has ever been able to suggest a source, although Chomsky clearly leads
> the reader to believe that the source is the Far Eastern Economic
> Review.
Actually it isn't clear if this is what he implies, because you have left out
the middle of the quotation. You also haven't said where you're quoting
from - a title and page number would let the rest of us check that you
haven't just stuck two unrelated passages together to prop up your argument.
mike.
