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A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West (Paperback)

by Noam Chomsky (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Verso Books; New edition edition (20 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1859843808
  • ISBN-13: 978-1859843802
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.6 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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1999 saw two major international crises which, looked at side-by-side by Noam Chomsky, illuminate the strategies of the Western powers in the new century. In East Timor the warnings of further escalation in an unfolding humanitarian disaster could not have been more apparent. The referendum on independence was predicted to prompt widespread savagery towards the local population by an Indonesian army and their cohorts. Noam Chomsky points out, the West did not need to do very much to prevent this, but East Timor is of little strategic interest to the US and its allies, so they did nothing, resulting in thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands being made homeless. By comparison, the intervention in Kosovo by NATO is very different, and Chomsky argues that strategic concerns were at stake; humanitarianism was not the moving force behind the military intervention in Yugoslavia. Ironically, the fate of the civilian population in Kosovo, as in East Timor, was incidental to the NATO action. Noam Chomsky explains with the combination of clinical focus and sweeping range that typifies his work, that it's business as usual for the new mandarins of the West.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant expose of US state, 27 Jun 2001
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This review is from: A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West (Hardcover)
Chomsky's latest book exposes recent US-British foreign policy: he focuses on these states' support for Turkish, Colombian and Indonesian atrocities, and their destruction of Yugoslavia. The spin tries to cover up their, and their agents' crimes, whose casualties are 'collateral damage'; the enemy's crimes, exaggerated and fabricated, are always 'genocidal'. NATO nowadays claims that it may intervene wherever it likes, whenever human rights are in peril. But this reborn, 'ethical', imperialism fools few. The South Summit of 2000, of 133 nations comprising 80% of the world's peoples, declared, "We reject the so-called 'right' of humanitarian intervention." Last year, Nelson Mandela accused the British and US governments of "encouraging international chaos by ignoring other nations and playing 'policeman of the world'." He said that he resented their "riding roughshod over the United Nations and launching military actions against Iraq and Kosovo." Chomsky notes that in 1994 the Turkish state's repression peaked, and also in 1994 Turkey became the world's largest arms importer, 80% from the USA. In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US 'aid', after a decade of the worst repression in the Western hemisphere, killing over 3,500 people and displacing two million. For the last forty years, the Indonesian army has relied on the US and British states for its training, funds and supplies. They aided its bloody coup in 1965, its invasion of Timor in 1979, and its murderous assaults on East Timor in 1999. After this last crime, but only after it, the US state cancelled its cooperation with the Indonesian army, which at once withdrew from East Timor. So the US could have prevented the crime, had it wished. Chomsky denounces the illegal NATO attack on Yugoslavia. He observes that the two key State Department reports and the International War Crimes Tribunal indictment of Milosevic and his associates focus almost entirely on their actions after the NATO bombing started on 24 March 1999. So, logically, those actions could not have been the reason for NATO's decision to attack. But the Tribunal is not investigating the NATO's war crime of aggression against a sovereign country.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential compelling reading, 6 Feb 2001
This review is from: A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West (Hardcover)
Once again Noam Chomsky reminds us of our commitments towards the human rights abuses that are perpetrated by our New World Order. Concerntrating on the cases of Kosovo and once again East Timor Chomsky reminds us as a new generation where we should draw the line on letting western governments get away with policing the world and deciding on worthy and unworthy victims. This book is inspirational as it addresses an new era, the twenty-first century, and looks at how the East Timor situation has escalated and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia has caused further human rights abuses to take place. As Bush's war hungry administration and the right wing minority sweep into power in the US Noam Chomskys words of truth and warning have an important place in international thought.
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