Alterman on Chomsky

[Brad DeLong]

>They are the most effort-free ways to garner
>"legitimacy" by trashing the wacky Noam (who of course
>isnt smart enough to realize how foolish such
>statements would have been).

Ahem...

Chomsky's statement that the U.S. government in the 1990s chose the 
Bosnian Muslims as its proxy force for geostrategic reasons was 
really stupid.

And I ran across a quote from page 291 of _After the Cataclysm_: "If 
a serious studyŠis someday undertaken, it may well be discoveredŠthat 
the Khmer Rouge programs elicited a positive responseŠbecause they 
dealt with fundamental problems rooted in the feudal past and 
exacerbated by the imperial system.Š Such a study, however, has yet 
to be undertaken..." To claim in 1979 that the character of the Khmer 
Rouge regime is still open to debate seems to me to be beyond the 
stupid, and into the malevolent.

Brad DeLong