The leading military historian, Bernard Fall—who believed in the US presence there—said at the time that "Vietnam as a cultural and historic entity… is threatened with extinction… [as] the countryside literally dies under the blows of the largest military machine ever unleashed on an area of this size". Yet, as Chomsky argued, mainstream media opinion saw US actions in Vietnam either "as a 'noble cause' that could have been won with more dedication", or, on the other side of the political spectrum, the critics spoke of "'a mistake' that proved too costly".
The war consumed everything like a vortex: Vietnam; Cambodia; Laos; even Bernard Fall himself was killed by a landmine.
Timor Limited
Similarly, when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, Chomsky and his co-author, Edward S. Herman, cut lonely figures by observing that the attack had even happened. Aerial bombing, mass executions, and enforced famine claimed 200,000 lives, but the occupation received almost no US coverage whatsoever. We found that reporting on East Timor in Canadian papers like The Globe and Mail declined after the invasion and virtually flatlined as the atrocities reached their peak in 1978. Two decades on, Elaine Brière's documentary Bitter Paradise: The Sell-Out of East Timor (1996) told the story but was itself bought—and then buried—by a major Canadian outlet.
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