Was the Killing Fields of Cambodia America's Holocaust?

[MOBIUS]

Inspired by Muad'Dib's wonderfully 'misguided' thread...

So anyway, short of controlling Pol Pot and pulling the triggers of the Khmer Rouge's weapons I put it to you, the people of Poly, that the US was responsible for creating the conditions in which the Khmer Rouge could thrive - and then leaving, creating a power vacuum allowing them to carry out the heinous atrocities whereby an estimated two million people perished and doing nothing whatsoever to stop them...

Now my little boy scouts, if you don't know much about this chapter of America's sordid past because you are either too young - or stupid, I suggest using these keywords in your searches...

Cambodia
Neutral Country
B-52s
Innocent Civilians
CIA sponsored Right-Wing Coup
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
Year Zero
Tuol Sleng
Cambodia's Auschwitz


Discuss!

[DRoseDARs]

I'd blame Bush, but he was busy snorting coke at the time.

[MOBIUS]

More likely it was because he was dodging the draft at the time...

[MichaeltheGreat]

Re: Was the Killing Fields of Cambodia America's Holocaust?

Originally posted by MOBIUS

Now my little boy scouts, if you don't know much about this chapter of America's sordid past because you are either too young - or stupid, I suggest using these keywords in your searches...

Cambodia
Neutral Country
B-52s
Innocent Civilians
CIA sponsored Right-Wing Coup
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
Year Zero
Tuol Sleng
Cambodia's Auschwitz


Discuss!

Don't forget:
Neutral country that couldn't or wouldn't control its own borders.
Violation of neutrality.
VC sanctuary
NVA sanctuary
Ho Chi Minh trail (if you want to do the MOBIUS strip, technically not the Ho Chi Minh trail itself, but an ancillary supply route into the central highlands of RVN.
Parrot's Beak
Fishhook
Iron Triangle

[Pekka]

That's right, if the NV wouldn't have used Cambodia, US wouldn't have had to counter in Cambodia either. We can say they used too much force, too much chemicals, too much everything. But the fact still is, it takes two to tango, and while the US was there, they were forced to be there by the enemy. Don't expect the logistic routes to be left alone if they are used in places it causes controversy to enter and destroy them.

[Spiffor]

The Cambodian nightmare may have been enabled by the Yank and Vietnamese meddling, but the real monster is Pol Pot.
The US has propped up plenty of dictatorships and betrayed plenty of countries in its past, and it never degenrated like in Cambodia. Becuase these other pawn countries didn't have a Pol Pot.

[Pekka]

Pol Pot. Yeah... what can you say to that. I guess nothing. Maybe nothing should be said, silence is the best protest of his character. The bastard doesn't deserve words, not even negative ones.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Pekka
Pol Pot. Yeah... what can you say to that. I guess nothing. Maybe nothing should be said, silence is the best protest of his character. The bastard doesn't deserve words, not even negative ones.

Let's just say that I consider Pol Pot to be the worst monster that has ever walked the Earth. And yes, this statement takes into account all genocidial maniacs I know of.

[Bereta_Eder]

who's pol pot?

[Pekka]

Spiffor, I don't know if I rank him the first, but he definitely is in the top 5. Maybe even top 3.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by paiktis22
who's pol pot?

Pol Pot

The Killing Fields

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Send Stewart Spink through the looking glass and you get MOBIUS.

[Muad'Dib]

Inspired by Muad'Dib's wonderfully 'misguided' thread...

Your welcome.

[Bereta_Eder]

Yet another "US defending democracy" incident. Anyway, it's good people now know what was known long ago about the mosntrocities of that country's governments.

[Pekka]

Yeah, US defending democracy incident, but carried about by a commie. Someone was indirect, when someone was direct. Both bad, but... this certainly is not a high argument for communism.