Bin Laden: The Story That Needs To Be Told

[Michael Pugliese]

It's at once sweeping and vague to pronounce that "...the rest of
[Chomsky's] narrative is unbalanced," especially after the quote you
provide shows that the principal charge against him -- minimizing
Cambodian deaths -- is untrue.  I suggest people consult his extensive
writing on benign and malign blood-baths in Southeast Asia, along with the
articles by Ear and Kazin (whose background you uncharacteristically omit)
- -- particularly in this week when the accounts of mass death are once
again being manipulated for propaganda purposes.  --CGE

  Michael Kazin, is the son of Alfred Kazin, the lit critter, who was one of
the few in that cohort to turn neo-con.
(See an article by him in the NYRB from '82, "The Other Day At The Plaza
Hotel, " on a conference by the Committee For The Free World. (Heh, nothing
like earnest Cold Warriors!) True, Kazin did write along with another
ex-SDS'er, a pro-Clinton apologia for The Nation in '96.

  On Chomsky, I'm more than willing, on or offlist to look at all the Sophal
thesis and compare to the text of Chomsky and Herman in the South End Press
vols.Chomsky, in this instance seems remarkably defensive.After all the
document trawling from the National Security State (only I.F. Stone, most
likely, or his son Jeremy Stone of FAS or the folks at the National Security
Archive at GWU, seem to have buried themselves in more USG paper), Chomsky,
in that time frame, had I think, become so cynically inured to mainstream
media lies, from TNR to the Readers Digest, that his critical faculties in
regard to the early reports of Khmer Rouge atrocities were bent way too far
towards dismissal.Regardless, I would never put the Noamster anywhere near
the same brand of ultra-leftist genocide denial of a Jared Israel, who till
his dying breath will deny that Milosevic killed 200,000 in Bosnia.(Same
goes for Michael Parenti).
Michael Pugliese