VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL Rex Snuvvle


> Pynchon's allusion to the brutality of "Uncle Ho's" regime (BLGVN "sent to
> Vietnam some 500 Trotskyist cadres, none of whom, being to the left of Ho
> Chi Minh, were ever heard from again" 207.27) is interesting enough in and
> of itself, of course, but Rex Snuvvle, a student activist, being involved
> with the remnants of a Southeast Asian Communist group who were to the
left
> of Ho Chi Minh in the late '60s cannot but remind one of the Khmer Rouge
and
> its supporters and advocates in the West.
>
> People like Chomsky, for instance, a notorious apologist for Pol Pot:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0896081001/inktomi-bkasin-20/ref%3Dno
> sim/104-9221284-0811957
>
> (watch the wrap)
>
> best

"Whether these estimates are right or wrong, no one knows, and no one cares.
There is a doctrine to be established: we must focus solely on the
(horrendous) crimes of Pol Pot, thus providing a retrospective justification
for (mostly unstudied) US crimes, and an ideological basis for further
"humanitarian intervention" in the future -- the Pol Pot atrocities were
explicitly used to justify US intervention in Central America in the '80s,
leaving hundreds of thousands of corpses and endless destruction. In the
interests of ideological reconstruction and laying the basis for future
crimes, facts are simply irrelevant, and anyone who tries to suggest
otherwise is targeted by a virulent stream of abuse. That runs pretty much
across the spectrum, an instructive phenomenon. But one consequence is that
no one can give a serious answer to the question you raise, because it is
about US crimes." -- Noam Chomsky
http://www.zmag.org/forums/chomcambodforum.htm