… Chomsky’s work with regard to Cambodia has been marred by omissions, dubious statistics, and, in some cases, outright misrepresentations. On top of this, Chomsky continues to deny that he was wrong about Cambodia. He responds to criticisms by misrepresenting his own positions, misrepresenting his critics’ positions, and describing his detractors as morally lower than “neo-Nazis and neo-Stalinists.”(2) Consequently, his refusal to reconsider his words has led to continued misinterpretations of what really happened in Cambodia.

From Keith Windshuttle writing in Policy Magazine we have

Although information was hard to come by, Chomsky suggested in an article in 1977 that post-war Cambodia was probably similar to France after liberation at the end of World War II when thousands of enemy collaborators were massacred within a few months. This was to be expected, he said, and was a small price to pay for the positive outcomes of the new government of Pol Pot.

Here’s an interesting chronology of Chomsky’s Cambodian views.

Or just check the Wikipedia entry on Noam Chomsky’s views on Cambodia.

Christopher Hitchens, who once defended Chomsky against charges of being a Pol Pot apologist in a 1985 article titled The Chorus and the Cassandra, has since changed his mind on the subject. He believes that Chomsky and others on the far left have become so determined to decry American policies that they are willing to overlook the true nature of America’s enemies.

You could just try Google. Chomsky’s support for the Khmer Rouge is a rather famous position.

Noam Chomsky, dean of anti-Imperialist anti-Americans, was a wild supporter of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge,

That’s utter crap, unless George has access to a special dictionary with definitions for “wild” and “supporter” that I’ve never before seen.

The only Typekey-guarded lefty site that I know of is Pandagon, and as far as I know, they put up that wall because of one or two super-persistent needlers.

My Site has Typekey enabled, but not required yet. Another site that I administer, Liberaltopia, had to go to Typekey because it was constantly getting hit with SPAM, regardless of Blacklist.

I think formatting buttons would be great. Thanks!

If you are interested, you can contact my through my site. I can also install Gravatars if you want them.

Seb is the site owner here; Brad and I just play drums and bass, as it were. He also has a new baby, so the time he spends on Sadly biz is quite limited for the time being.

The only Typekey-guarded lefty site that I know of is Pandagon, and as far as I know, they put up that wall because of one or two super-persistent needlers.

BTW: You really could use some text formatting buttons here. I could send you the script if you want them. It is a simple install.

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(LOL eh Ashcroft?)

They don’t even have the trust to take anonymous comments. What are they afraid of, truth?
This seems to be the difference between conservative and liberal. If ya can’t stand the heat, get outta the kitchen!

Piece of shit website; but I won’t tell anyone…………promise!

To be fair, I am the one who wrote that Typekey statement. Since the owner of THIS site has an older version of Movable Type, you don’t get to “experience” the security features of the newer version.

There is a reason why Misha went to registered comments through Typekey. The main reason is that it blocks all attempts at comment-SPAM. But there were other problems with people “spoofing” other commenters to the point that it was getting out of hand to control any other way.

I work on all sorts of Movable Type blogs — Liberal, Conservative, foreign, — it doesn’t matter to me that I might disagree with 90 percent of the comments on a particular site. I just enjoy the discussion.

Stereotype much?

This is like one of those primitive 1993 Usenet discussions, where you’d be all like, “Dude, if you’d stop twisting what I originally said…” And the other guy would be like, “You are trying to change the subject. You have proven with your own words that you are a Stalinist Nazi Collectivist.”

An Afghan is not only a native of Afghanistan, aka an Afghanistani, but also one of the languages there.

…And as we know, those vintage Usenet discussions were liable to collapse into sematics.

An Afghani is what an Afghan puts in his wallet, currently trading at 43 Afghani to the US Dollar.

Use Google.

If I do, will I find that you’re more correct, or that I am?

Stereotype much?

An Afghan is not only a native of Afghanistan, aka an Afghanistani, but also one of the languages there.

An Afghani is what an Afghan puts in his wallet, currently trading at 43 Afghani to the US Dollar.

Use Google.

Gavin continues with the notion of democracy in Afghanistan is beyond laughable and calls them sociopaths with automatic weapons.

Sure, like you’d invite a crew of battle-hardened, opium-trafficking, slave-trading Afghan Muslims over for a 4th of July barbecue. Just your kind of guys.

Yepper, you libs have great faith in little brown people. Oops. Afghans aren’t brown?

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I think he means ‘Afghanis,’ anyway. Not the dog or the blanket-type object.

I just had to tell you that I love you.

“with 400,000 found in his mass graves” – if only the heroes of the right wing hadn’t been shaking his hand & selling him weapons while this was occuirring… or, maybe you’d like to offer a condemnation of Reagan and Rummy for not just failing to overthrow Saddam, but actually playing nice with him?

I love the last paragraph of your response btw, it’s like a window into your pathology- doesn’t matter what the subject is, once you get stumped you end up on a non sequitur rant against socialists &/or pacifists. It’s like 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon…
(Why, Orwell *was* a socialist! What am I to do? Wait, Orwell once wrote something bad about the fascist Mussolini, who had been a *Socialist* at one time. Point for me!)

I love being told who my personal heroes are. If I am against the war in Iraq, then I am apparently in the same league as Chomsky and and the loons at ANSWER. It can never be that I didn’t buy Bush’s claim that Saddam Hussein wasn’t as big a threat to national security as he’d claimed, no, it must be because I’m a Chomskyite pacifist…

OK, then let’s go to Iran next. Or North Korea. Heck, pick just about any tin-pot hell-hole in the world that’s slaughtering people. See, I’m one of those crazy people who doesn’t think you should go to war except:

a.) In self-defense
b.) To stop a real genocide (see: Sudan, Rwanda)

Just being oppressive doesn’t cut it. If you really, really wanted to find a country that:

a.) Is an active supporter of al-Qaeda
b.) Is close to developing nuclear weapons
c.) Is just as nasty and repressive as Saddam’s regime (and has much, much closer ties to radical Islam)

I’d reccommend Iran.

Ahem. Awful reasoning.

The “strawman” I pointed out was that you suggested:

a.) I was a pacifist
b.) I wanted to let Iraq sink into a tribal hellhole.

If we just pulled up our stakes right now and left, yes, that could really happen. But I do not advocate pulling up our stakes and leaving.

I’d rather we set a list of specific goals that, after met, we could begin to draw down our troops levels. That is not a “time-table for withdrawal,” it is an “exit strategy.”

…But one thing the President got right — in the seventies. He didn’t sign up to go to Vietnam, because he knew that was a screwed up war. Discourage anybody who is considering going to Iraq with the Prez’s nifty example. Squeeze the military recruitment numbers until the criminals running the place say ouch.