From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: US aggression in Cambodia, was Noam Chomsky Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:18:02 +0000 John Foster wrote: >The US was indeed the antecedent cause of the wrongs and injustices of the >Pol Pot regime. The US conducted a large series of bombing raids into the >country side of Cambodia in an attempt to prevent the North Vietnamese from >carrying out their military actions there. The US bombings killed many >civilians. John you compare this to what Pol Pot did! Pol Pot was responsible for 2 MILLION civilian deaths, and that wasn't even due to warfare, but simply rather to the classic communist techniques of imprisonment, torture, overwork, starvation and execution that accompanied the forced evacuation of all cities into the countryside to create a Maoist communist agricultural utopia. This diminishing of the monstrosity of what he did for the sake of blaming the US is equivalent to Chomsky's diminishment of Sept. 11 by comparing it to the bombing in Sudan. >The combination of the US attacks which included the destruction >of 500,000 acres of rubber plantations with agent organe, forced a large >majority of citizens into the cities. This massive dislocation was also >part >of the Khmer Rouge attempt to indoctrinate and modernize the Cambodians. The dislocation by the Khmer Rouge was OUT of the cities, not INTO them, and AWAY from modern urban life, not towards modernization! It is classic Maoist communism! >The >US was supportive of the Khmer Rouge initially because they were a >'counter-insurgency' organization fighting the Vietnamese. However as >history demonstrated the US also removed it's armed forces from Cambodia at >a time when it should have been present there to prevent the attrocities of >the Pol Pot regime. We finally agree about something. Anthony Crifasi _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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