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| Tribunal ignoring US role in Killing Fields, says leftest Chomsky |
| 2009-04-01 |
| Linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky speaks to the Post's George McLeod about the 'farcical' shortcomings of Cambodia's war crimes court. Top Khmer Rouge leaders are now in detentionat the war crimes tribunal. Is a UN-backed trial the best way forward, or should it be left to the Cambodian people? I think it should be left to the Cambodian people. I can't imagine a UN international trial. But then, it shouldn't be limited to the Cambodians. After all, an international trial that doesn't take into account Henry Kissinger or the other authors of the American bombing and the support of the KR after they were kicked out of the country . That's just a farce - especially with what we now know about the bombing of Cambodia since the release of the Kissinger-Nixon tapes and the release of declassified documents during the Clinton years. There has been a very different picture of the scale and intensity of the bombing and its genocidal scale. For an international trial to omit this would be scandalous. Radical, leftest Russian Amish, why do they hate America? More at the link if you can stomach it. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Chomsky's only speaking up now too many have been ignoring him. "Listen to me! I'm important! I am a giant in my own mind! Don't you dare ignore me! I'll hold my breath!" And so it goes.... |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-04-01 13:51 |
| #6 Darth, he's been intellectually dead for decades, the body just hasn't gotten the message yet. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2009-04-01 12:35 |
| #5 Is this idiot still alive? I thought he died years ago. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-04-01 11:01 |
| #4 It is America's fault for listening to communists like Chomsky to withdraw support for the Vietnamese, Cambodians and Lao when the guerrila war was won but the Communist conventional threat and goals remained. It's also America's fault for listening to radical leftists like Chomsky lie, deny and cover up for the Khmer Rouge when there were credible witnesses to the genocide begging to be heard. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-04-01 10:30 |
| #3 Spot on CH. They are obviously not enjoying the full 'blame America' impact. Surely there must be some way they can link "W" into all of this. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-04-01 09:59 |
| #2 Your're starting to sound like Lyndon Larouche, Noamy.. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-04-01 09:57 |
| #1 Ummm... and wasn't he one of the intellectual who insisted that there weren't any atrocities going on in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, that there was nothing to see here, move on? Matter of fact, the only Americans that I can remember supporting the KR... were intellectual leftist suck-ups like... Noam Chomsky! |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-04-01 09:49 |