[lbo-talk] A list of who is advising each candidate

[Wendy Lyon]

I noticed her gross inconsistency in that book in dealing with the
ethnic cleansing of Krajina in 1995.  She gave it a whopping one
paragraph and it read as though she approved of it. Of course the US
was firmly on Croatia's side by that point in the conflict, although I
assumed her primary justification for this position was that the
victims were Serbs and therefore deserved it.

On 10/4/07, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
(quoting Chomsky on Samantha Power)
> It's informative to
> look through her best-seller Problem from Hell to see what is said about
> US crimes.  There are a few scant mentions: e.g., that the US looked
> away from the genocidal Indonesian aggression in East Timor.  In fact,
> as has long been indisputable, the US looked right there and acted
> decisively to expedite the slaughters, and continued to do so for 25
> years, even after the Indonesian army had virtually destroyed what
> remained of the country, when Clinton, under great international and
> domestic pressure, finally told the Indonesian generals that the game
> was over and they instantly withdrew -- revealing, as if we needed the
> evidence, that the immense slaughter could have been easily terminated
> at any point, if anyone cared.  The implications cannot be perceived.
>
> But in general US participation in horrendous crimes is simply ignored
> in Problem from Hell.  Few seem to able to perceive that a similar book,
> excoriating Stalin for not paying enough attention to US crimes, would
> very likely have been very highly praised in the old Soviet Union.  What
> better service could one provide to the cause of massacre, torture, and
> destruction -- by the Holy State and its clients, of course, whose only
> fault is that they do not attend sufficiently to the crimes of others.