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[Malignd]

<<"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>>

Is this quote intended to rebuke Rob's point or
support it?  Chomsky does parenthetically note that
Pol Pot's crimes were "(horrendous)," giving them the
same rhetorical (parenthetical) weight as US crimes
"(mostly unstudied)."  But, that quibbling detail
addressed, he's back on point.  

Has there ever been a writer or thinker more lacking
in greyscale than this man?  He's like Ahab.


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