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| Walter Duranty lives |
| 2003-12-30 |
| in a U of C professor, via Bros. Judd, usual blather from a well-paid tenured useful idiot: University of Chicago historian Bruce Cumings is the left’s leading scholar of Korean history. In addition to contributing to documentary films on Korean life, Cumings has written a massive and highly critical multi-volume account of the Korean War and published a general history of Korea, titled Korea’s Place in the Sun. And he is not shy about his opinions... But it is Korea that is Cumings’s main focus, and in his new book, North Korea: Another Country, he sets for himself one basic goal. Cumings wants to convince Americans to abandon what he considers to be George Bush’s simplistic and dangerous Korean policy... Cumings is apologetic on behalf of the DPRK. For America, he has nothing but scorn. American attitudes towards Korea are racist. The Korean War, in turn, was a U.S. war of aggression that amounted to a holocaust for the Korean people. The U.S., he contends, had no right to interfere in Korea because the war was "a civil war, a war fought by Koreans, for Korean goals." Equally important, after the war, the U.S. supported a corrupt and dictatorial South Korean government. ...Cumings is so filled with Chomskyian anti-Americanism that he places almost all the blame for whatever problems the North Koreans face on America’s shoulders. Moreover, he insists the U.S., not North Korea, must compromise on negotiations over nuclear weapons. For Americans to think otherwise is hypocritical. After all, North Korea would simply "like to have nuclear weapons like those that the United States amasses by the thousands." ... On and on w/the usual nonsense, and of course, when the house of cards collapses, reality will not hit this man in the head. These people are eating the dead for $()%&*()#$*% Sake! |
| Posted by:Anonymous2u |
| #2 Hmm... if he is no knowledgeable about Korea then he must know about the prison system and death camps and outright murder of newborn babies simply because they might be of 'mixed korean-chinese' race. Not to mention the mass starvation so that kimmie-the-baby-murderer can maintain his armies to oppress his own people. In short this person seems to be nothing more then an knowing accessory to kimmie-boys crimes against his own people. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-12-30 10:47:01 PM |
| #1 Let's take up a collection. I'd throw in a few bucks to buy the good professor a one-way ticket to the worker's paradise. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2003-12-30 10:44:34 PM |