I Don't Get It

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 18 14:32:26 PST 2001


Seth Ackerman wrote:


>If your point is that military interventions should be judged by their
>merits and not by who is undertaking them, then your point is true and
>should be obvious to everyone, including leftists.
>
>But you seem to assume this is also the attitude of the US government. Take
>your example of the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia. When you say "we"
>cheered it, you surely don't include the Carter Administration. Here's
>Chomsky on that episode:

For those who don't trust Chomsky, try Nayan Chanda's Brother Enemy.

Doug



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