Robert Epstein wrote:
> small tortoiseshell wrote:
>
>> I usually dont pay attention to trials like that but i think i will
>> with this one. Its messy it seems and the u.s involvement in the whole
>> thing might explain why his old buddy is doing the defense as well.
>> He probably wants it all on the table.
>> well, i dont know really, just spinning on something i usually dont.
>> Rant finished :)
>>
>>
>> "The US not only helped to create conditions that brought Cambodia's
>> Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively sup****ted the genocidal
>> force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was
>> secretly funding Pol Pot's exiled forces on the Thai border. The
>> extent of this sup****t -- $85 million from 1980-86 -- was revealed 6
>> years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan
>> Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign
>> Relations Committee and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation."
>>
>> "In 1981, Pres. Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew
>> Brzezinski, said, "I encouraged the Chinese to sup****t Pol Pot. The
>> US", he added, "winked publicly" as China sent arms to the Khmer
>> Rouge(KR) through Thailand."
>>
>> "In 1980, under US pressure, the World Food Program handed over food
>> worth $12 million to the Thai Army to pass on to the KR. According to
>> former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke,'20,000 to
>> 40,000 Pol Pot guerrillas benefited. This aid helped restore the KR to
>> a fighting force, based in Thailand, from which it destabilized
>> Cambodia for more than a decade.'"
>>
>> "In 1982, the US and China, sup****ted by Singa****e, invented the
>> Coalition of the Democratic Government of Kampuchea, which was, as Ben
>> Kiernan pointed out, neither a coalition, nor democratic, nor a
>> government, not in Kampuchea. Rather, it was what the CIA calls a
>> 'master illusion.' ... Cambodia's former ruler, Prince Norodom
>> Sihanouk, was appointed its head; otherwise little changed. The KR
>> dominated the two "non-communist" members, the Sihanoukists and the
>> Khmer Peoples' National Liberation Front (KPNLF). From his office at
>> the UN, Pol Pot's ambassador, the urbane Thereon Parish, continued to
>> speak for Cambodia. A close associate of Pol Pot, he had in 1975
>> called on Khmer expatriates to return home, whereupon many of them
>> disappeared."
>
>
> This is unbelievable. Why on earth did they sup****t the Kmer Rouge?
It's an example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" sort of
thinking. What some see as realism in world matters, some see as pure
cynicism, and others see as wholesale delusion.
Just look at the US bafflement in Iraq as it tries out this idea once
more - such that we have gotten so confused as to the friends and enemy
label that we now sup****t factions sup****ted by our declared enemy Iran.
A tangled web of neoconservative compassion.
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