The reference to the excellent comments of Martin Luther King on the Vietnam War reminded me of this great statement by Noam Chomsky:
“Pol Pot was obviously a major mass murderer, but it’s not clear that Pol Pot killed very many more people–or even more people–than the United States killed in Cambodia in the first half of the 1970s. We only talk about ‘genocide’ when other people do the killing.”
Yet, conservatives frequently rail against King and Chomsky for their leftist views while at the same time supporting mass murder in Vietnam or Iraq. Although I have strong disagreements with both King and Chomsky, I’ll take them over murder any day.
8:17 pm on January 21, 2008 Email Laurence M. Vance
