PK, stick to the issue... You asked me to stop demonizing Chomsky and provide some real criticism, that I did. And now you try to veer off on a tangent? Well lets pull us back to topic. What do you think about Chomsky's treatment of Cambodia?
This must be his most notorious political escapade. Shall we discuss Chomsky's distortions of facts to suit his ends? What do you think about a man who distorts reports coming out of Cambodia about massive massacres, in typical Chomsky fashion, by never denying it but misquoting the Economist and other reputable magazines and saying that *at most* only *several thousand* were killed? A man who disavowed any atrocities on the part of the Khmer Rouge, *until the Vietnamese themselves* invaded Cambodia because Pol Pot was mad, and then said that *maybe* some of the reports were true, but *it was all the fault of the US that it happened!*
In typical fashion, misdirection, disinformation, distortion and skirting around the facts, and always, when his Leftist friends fail, it was the devil (the US) that made them do it. Outside his field of linguistics, Chomsky has no credibility with me, and it is indicative that the New York Review of Books has long ago stopped reviewing him. If he didnt have his credentials, he would be seen for what he may very well be: a crank. |
