From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 10:54:26 MST
In 1979, 3 years AFTER the killing in Cambodia Chomsky wrote in his book
"After the Cataclysm":
"If a serious study.is someday undertaken, it may well be discovered.that
the Khmer Rouge programs elicited a positive response because they dealt
with fundamental problems rooted in the feudal past and exacerbated by the
imperial system.. Such a study, however, has yet to be undertaken."
Or consider that other Holocaust and the matter of Robert Faurisson, a rabid
anti Semite who has described the Nazi Holocaust as a "Zionist Hoax",
the diary of Anne Frank as phony, and "American Zionists" "and "the Jews"
were responsible for World War II. Chomsky wrote the preface for one of
Faurisson's books praising his "findings" and his "extensive historical
research." Then he said "I see no anti-Semitic implication in the denial
of the existence in gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust."
I think the New York Review of Books got it right when they called
Mr. Chomsky "the Doctor Demento of American Political Commentary."
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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