At 08:27 AM 07/10/00 -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
Merely a denial, not a rebuttal:
Now who is splitting hairs?
This essay does not actually claim that the people cited by Chomsky said the things that Chomsky attributes to them. In particular it presents no actual examples of massacre reports that were discovered to be false.
In particular, it presents that those now-infamous paragraphs you've finger-wagged, were actually cobbled together from the summary and intro- duction to Volume 1 of "The Political Economy of Human Rights", without ellipses to denote their true origin.
It answers none of the criticisms that I or other people have made of Chomsky.
Then you don't know how to read, and are beginning to be a bore.
Most flagrantly, it ignores the fact that Chomsky's position, and the radical left position, on Cambodia changed abruptly and radically when Soviet foriegn policy changed in January 1979, quoting statements that Chomsky made after 1979 as evidence that he did not mean the things he said before 1979.
You've yet to present anything he has said (with proper source), from post 1979, for comparison with proper quote and attribution, from pre- 1979. Last chance. Reese