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That whole controversy centers around him pointing out that a book by a guy called Ponchaud which was being used as a pretext to try and go to war was full of errors.
It was full of errors.
- galacticpony2 9y agoPonchaud's book was not full of errors, it was based on accounts that were (at the time) unverifiable and Chomsky went on to question their credibility. For an outline of the points brought forth, you may read this: http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/wma.html http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/wma.html What the article you linked refers to as "full of errors" was in fact a review of the book by Jean Lacouture.