>
> "It is obvious that there exists a Western delirium that seems to be
> the flip side of a great rationality and that there is a Western bias
> that seems to be the flip side of a great efficiency. Obvious as long
> as one takes into account that the West is at war. And that it is
> waging its war through peaceful means which are characteristic of
> a cultural war: 'If you want war, pretend you are making peace.' The
> West's principal weapon is its monopoly on information (and
> disinformation) along with the financial establishment of
> multinational corporations. It is winning the war of words and
> images...The best source of propaganda for the West was the Pol
> Pot regime. We needed that ogre, that foil" by Regis Debray.
>
> How many millions did that foil cost Cambodia?
> =======
>
> Actually, none. The wicked Pol Pot regime was supported by the wicked
> regimes of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiao-Ping, on the basis
> that it was anti-Vietnamese.
You can add China to the list, but my point is that Debray,
Chomsky and others dismissed western reports about the
extermination this regime was carrying against its own people -
those who drove cars and used oil, simply on the grounds that non-
westerners were incapable of such crimes. We now know that
every race and ethnic group on earth that has had the opportunity
has killed, infected, exterminated, and assimilated others: the
West has no monopoly on this, and should be praised for
cultivating the very ideas you now advocate.
No amount of words and images concerning the
> Pol Pot ogre served to temper that support.
>
> Michael K.
>
