Reddit reviews The Politics of Genocide

What, that he wrote the foreword? It's not a secret, check the authors listed.

Chomsky's response upon being questioned about this book's claims was as follows:

>There’s no “implicit endorsement.” I made no reference to their claims about these or other matters, but kept to their main thesis, which is extremely important and not understood at all. It would, in my opinion, have been totally inappropriate to comment on these or many other claims in the book. I was not writing a review, but pickup the main thesis and elaborating on it. True, it might have been “wise” — if my goal were to appease British intellectuals. It wasn’t.

He declined to comment on these claims in the remainder of this correspondence as well. Herman and Chomsky have worked together frequently in the past (eg, on "Manufacturing Consent"), and many observers have interpreted his extreme reticence to make any direct follow-up comment about the incidents in question as indicating a tacit acceptance of said claims. The book reflects more poorly on Herman than Chomsky, to be sure, but it does seem (at a minimum) to have been a bit of a tactless move.

If you're interested, here is a fuller examination of the book's claims about Rwanda.

[The politics of genocide] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Politics-Genocide-Edward-Herman/dp/1583672125)

I agree with a lot of your posts bumbling but I don't think this accusation is fair. The whole "gatekeeper" idea is a bit silly to me. People will dig as far down the rabbit hole as they please, Chomsky or Jones or Dawson or whoever is not stopping people from continuing to research. I think he, as a respectable MIT professor, brings a lot of crediblity to criticism of Israel, also because hes a jew. Just because he denies 9/11 doesn't mean he's on the payroll, probably just afraid of losing his job or being discredited. You should read "Politics of Genocide" a book with a foreward by Chomsky. Excellent stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Genocide-Edward-S-Herman/dp/1583672125

1. Jurisdiction.
   
2. Nobody cares about the Burmese genocide.
   
   edit: Here's another book I'd recommend to help you answer your "why" question: A Problem from Hell, by Samantha Power. I've read both this one and the other book linked above. Your question, in my opinion, is 99% a political questions and only 1% a legal question. If the world really cared, they would find a way to stop it, regardless of any legal basis for the action.