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Walter Duranty lives
in a U of C professor, via Bros. Judd, usual blather from a well-paid tenured useful idiot:University of Chicago historian Bruce Cumings is the leftâs leading scholar of Korean history. In addition to contributing to documentary films on Korean life, Cumings has written a massive and highly critical multi-volume account of the Korean War and published a general history of Korea, titled Koreaâs Place in the Sun. And he is not shy about his opinions... But it is Korea that is Cumingsâs main focus, and in his new book, North Korea: Another Country, he sets for himself one basic goal. Cumings wants to convince Americans to abandon what he considers to be George Bushâs simplistic and dangerous Korean policy... Cumings is apologetic on behalf of the DPRK. For America, he has nothing but scorn. American attitudes towards Korea are racist. The Korean War, in turn, was a U.S. war of aggression that amounted to a holocaust for the Korean people. The U.S., he contends, had no right to interfere in Korea because the war was "a civil war, a war fought by Koreans, for Korean goals." Equally important, after the war, the U.S. supported a corrupt and dictatorial South Korean government. ...Cumings is so filled with Chomskyian anti-Americanism that he places almost all the blame for whatever problems the North Koreans face on Americaâs shoulders. Moreover, he insists the U.S., not North Korea, must compromise on negotiations over nuclear weapons. For Americans to think otherwise is hypocritical. After all, North Korea would simply "like to have nuclear weapons like those that the United States amasses by the thousands." ... On and on w/the usual nonsense, and of course, when the house of cards collapses, reality will not hit this man in the head. These people are eating the dead for $()%&*()#$*% Sake! Posted by: Anonymous2u 2003-12-30 |
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