My friend too, though we quarrel. At the time, as presented in that piece (and believe me I can dig up the cites from the (NY) Guardian and other left sources like the Irwin Silber pamphlet from Line of March on "Kampuchea," "Kampuchea: The Revolution Rescued, " too much of the US socialist and communist left was too skeptical of reports of the slaughter then in course in Cambodia.
David McReynolds, still says he wouldn't sign the Joan Baez letter against the human rights violations of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam back in '79. Daniel Ellberg did. The Berrigan Brothers did. Staughton Lynd too.
On 11/19/05, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>From Collective Guilt To Collective Silence
> >
> > by Stuart Elliott New America June 1976
>
> > David McReynolds of the War Resisters League said that his
> > organization has not yet seen any reports which are substantial enough
> > to take a position condemning Cambodia.
>
> Doug, did you know that yr pal McR is a Pol Pot apologist? Just like Noam!
>
> Thanks MPug for reminding us that the KR killed lots of people. It's hard to
> find such a view in the US.
>
> Dennis
>
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