The Anger Of The Left

[aharris]

Chopper

As you know, the Kymer Rouge were originally irregulars under the North Vietnamese Army but eventually became rivals. The main backer of Pol Pot's regimen was not North Vietnam but China. China had been suppliers of munitions to the Kymer for years before the genocide. The alignment of North Vietnam with Soviet Communism strengthened the Kymer ties with China who backed the Kymer Rouge because of their rivalry with the Soviets. Pol Pot adopted a Chinese form of Communism. Eventually, the Pol Pot regime was overthrown by the North Vietnamese. Interestingly, at one point in the mid 1970's the UN voted on whether to give the seat for Cambodia to the Kymer, recognizing them as the party in power. The resolution was only defeated by 2 votes.

Interestingly too, the bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam conflict is felt to be the major factor in encouraging the civilian population to join the Kymer Rouge. The US "support" of the government in power may have directly enabled the genocide rather than potentially prevented it. Or am I just misinformed?

on another point...

As I stated earlier, 26,000 weren’t the victims of collateral damage. They were the victims of deliberate, planned homicidal actions by a group of insane animals bent on the destruction of people like, well, you. You can’t seriously blame the victims of Muslim car bombs and Sunni death squads on the coalition forces.

As some of these 26,000 were killed by US munitions directed at insurgency targets I assume you are not including US servicemen under the rubric of "a group of insane animals bent on the destruction of people".


As for the border with Canada, why would you suggest that the screening of persons travelling into Canada is any less effective than screening of individuals entering the US. Are our security measures that lax? They certainly identified you as a threat to our national security

Andrew