Monday, November 14, 2005
Even Norman Finkelstein's mother thought the US was worse than the Nazis. From Finkelstein's ogoing self-retrospective:
It was no mystery from whence my mother's impassioned response sprang. The devastating firepower of the Americans, on the one hand, and the utter defenselessness of the Vietnamese, on the other; the indifference or, at any rate, scandalously incommensurate response, of the rest of humanity to the ongoing genocide: it was the Nazi holocaust all over again...
50,000+ dead Americans would tend to indicate something less than defenselessness. Read on for an interesting look at the case study of Finkelstein's thought processes.
(Hat Tip: Steven Plaut)
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Finkelstein must know, doesn't he, that the real "ongoing genocide" started in Cambodia once we left Vietnam?
Nutty Norm comes by his mental instability and illogic honestly. Mother Finkelstein, a Holocaust survivor, told her son that if there really was a Holocaust, how come there are so many Holocaust surviviors.
Mother Finkelstein, apparently, could not do the math and deduce that if you slaugher 50% of a population of 12 million, you are left with 6 million survivors. And, apparently, neither can her son or any of his admirers.