CDR: Re: Niiice kitty....

Reese reeza at flex.com
Fri Oct 6 22:56:23 PDT 2000


At 03:39 PM 06/10/00 -1000, Reese wrote:
 >At 12:45 AM 06/10/00 -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:

 > >Distortions at Fourth Hand
 > >Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
 > >The Nation, June 25, 1977
 > >
 > >: : 	such journals as the Far Eastern Economic Review , the
 > >: : 	London Economist , the Melbourne Journal of Politics , and
 > >: : 	others elsewhere, have 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
 > >
 >
 >Now I have something to work with, I'll get back to you on this.

I posted this quote, along with your comments, at another list.

I received this, in reply:

    http://abbc.com/aaargh/fran/chomsky/cassandra.html
    --a 1985 essay by Christopher Hitchens defending
    Chomsky against such charges.

As I've said, I'm not a Chomsky hater, nor am I a Chomsky admirer.  I've
heard the name on this list, but have not yet investigated him.  I've read
the page the url above leads to and must say, it makes more sense to me
than do your philippics.  It gives better attributions at first blush.  It
dissects whines such as yours and sends them to the oven, where they can
be properly roasted with flesh-searing heat, the better to reduce the
fatty content.  I shall not bother to read your paranoid posts from this
day, forward.

Go away.

Reese





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