Hollywood Lee wrote:
> Robert Epstein wrote:
>
>> small tortoiseshell wrote:
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>>> 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?
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> 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.
How about complicity in barbarism?
> 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.
Yes, well the Bush administration is about as compassionate as a
hornet's nest.
Robert
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