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by HyperSane 1190 days ago
"looks quite unfortunate in retrospect"

It was completely unjustified at the time. There was absolutely no reason to doubt the testimony of refugees coming from Cambodia, other than they didn't fit into Chomsky's strange worldview that the US is the cause of all problems in the world.

Even today his views on Russia's invasion of Ukraine are completely moronic.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/22/russia-ukraine-war-left...

For ‘Peace Activists,’ War Is About America, Never Russia Their own hard-left worldview is so absorbing that they will take the side of any aggressor in the anti-Western camp.

https://www.e-flux.com/notes/470005/open-letter-to-noam-chom...