Bin Laden: The story that needs to be told

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ah, yes.  Aren't you the fellow who announced that you had a proper
understanding of Chomsky from having read 17 pages of one of his books?  
I don't wish to compromise your amateur status, but here's the "comparison
of the Khmer Rouge to the Free French":

"...it seems to us [Chomsky & Herman] quite important to determine whether
the number of collaborators massacred in France was on the order of
thousands, and whether the French Government ordered and organized the
massacre. Exactly such questions arise in the case of Cambodia."  

[Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, "Distortions at Fourth Hand," The
Nation, June 25, 1977]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:


> >On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote:
> >
> >>  ... too often I'm dissapointed by the critiques emanating from the
> >>  left that are every bit as slanted and sloppy with the truth as the
> >>  worthless cant they intend to deconstruct.  See Chomsky's "analysis"
> >>  of the media coverage pertaining to the Khmer Rouge.
> >
> >If you're suggesting that Chomsky's analysis of the media coverage of the
> >war in Cambodia was "slanted and sloppy with the truth," you simply don't
> >know what you're talking about.  --CGE
> 
> <sarcasm>The comparison of the Khmer Rouge to the Free French was *so*
> insightful, convincing, and illuminating!</sarcasm>
> 
>