{"id":12959,"date":"2010-01-19T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T01:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=12959"},"modified":"2010-01-19T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T01:45:53","slug":"chomsky-on-cambodia-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=12959","title":{"rendered":"Chomsky on Cambodia (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By way of imagining the real world, Southeast Asia Sounding: 1\/18\/2010<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I previously mentioned a review of the \u201cChomsky\/Cambodia\u201d debate<\/a>. For those not familiar with this eternally recurring ideologically-driven nightmare, Noam Chomsky, internationally the most respected intellectual in the world (if one is to judge by citation, a common measure), is repeatedly accused of having been a Khmer Rouge apologist during the years 1975-1979. It is implied in most of these critiques that Chomsky\u2019s immense influence with US architects of foreign policy somehow made the suffering of Cambodians under Pol Pot\u2019s frankly evil regime worse. Horse-hockey. Here is the latest set of articles in this debate. If you read any of them, please do yourself a favor and read all of them, and to very carefully weigh the arguments made by each, and consider what position is more solid. I know my answer, but I\u2019m convinced that the silly ad hominems and pseudo-moralism passing for serious discussion and debate is not worthwhile, and that careful, personal examination of the real facts is more persuasive.<\/p>\n

* \u201cLost in Cambodia<\/a>,\u201d by Andrew Anthony. Times of London<\/em>, January 10, 2010
\n * \u201cMalcolm Caldwell: a carefully redesigned version of history<\/a>,\u201d by Noam Chomsky. The Guardia<\/em>n, January 17, 2010
\n * \u201cNever apologize, never explain<\/a>,\u201d by Oliver Kamm. Times of London<\/em>, January 17, 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/em> : Noam Chomsky on Cambodia<\/a>, \u201cWest Midlands Anarchists\u201d\/Paul Bogdanor.<\/p>\n

Note to self:<\/p>\n

1) Chomsky is essentially soft on rightwing militia depending on where they come from;
\n2) Chomsky supports the increase of guns and armaments into a volatile region of the world, the Middle East;
\n3) Chomsky wouldn’t support the arming of rightwing militia in the United States, because that’s a bit too close to home, yet he’s happy for rightwing militia in Lebanon to be up to their eyeballs in guns rockets and other useless killing machinery;
\n4) that is not the stance of a consistent intellectual, and certainly not the world\u2019s greatest intellectual.<\/p>\n

Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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