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American leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders
Boston Globe ^
| April 30, 1998
| Jeff Jacoby
Posted on 04/10/2008 8:01:03 AM PDT by Interesting Times
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To: RoadKingSE
(Guevara}
Thanks. I was way off. But the facts are still there - liberals are crazy!
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posted on
04/10/2008 9:13:29 AM PDT
by
Bitsy
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Elsewhere in the news, Mugabe has declared the election results a state secret; Obama’s cousin is engaged in an effort to overthrow the gov’t of Obama’s real native land...
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posted on
04/10/2008 9:18:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: Interesting Times
Twenty-three years ago, American leftists cheered, justified, and denied as the communists plunged Cambodia into a nightmare of atrocity. In the end, they failed to whitewash Pol Pot's record. They will not succeed in whitewashing their own.I have to disagree.
It would appear to me that the vast majority of americans have no idea of the leftist culpability for yet another 20th century communist genocide they cheered on.
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posted on
04/10/2008 9:40:51 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(FedGov has no intention of actually doing anything to secure this nation. It's all a power grab.)
To: Interesting Times
Pol Pot was a monster, but he didn't kill two million people with his own hands. You have to have a cadre of fanatics eager to slaughter for the cause to accomplish that...Nope. You just need your average person for it. Look around you. More than half the people you meet on any given day would willingly participate.
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posted on
04/10/2008 9:50:15 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(FedGov has no intention of actually doing anything to secure this nation. It's all a power grab.)
To: VeniVidiVici
Americans who objected were guilty of ``cultural arrogance, an imperial assumption, that . . . our way of life'' would be better. The truth is that it was the KR who imposed an alien way of life on the Cambodians -- one learned on the left bank in Paris by Pol Pot. In the process of imposing a Marxist "utopia" on the Cambodians, the Khmer Civilization was largely destroyed and the damage lingers today.
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posted on
04/10/2008 9:51:45 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: zeugma
Nope. You just need your average person for it. Look around you. More than half the people you meet on any given day would willingly participate. I think you're off by a couple of decimal places.
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posted on
04/10/2008 9:55:08 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: Eurale
Liberals dont need to be reminded of their past mistakes because theyre perfectly willing to do the same thing again... and again... and again. After all, they know whats best for all of us - and the world.The way my one (and only) conservative college professor described the typical liberal was "Okay, so my first twenty-six ideas didn't work. But you really owe it to yourself to listen to number twenty-seven..."
To: Interesting Times
I think you're off by a couple of decimal places.No sir. You are. Studies have been done on this, though not nearly enough due to the importance of the subject matter. Someone had to man the ovens, or work the killing fields, or kill millions in 'cultural revolutions'.
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posted on
04/10/2008 10:02:13 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(FedGov has no intention of actually doing anything to secure this nation. It's all a power grab.)
To: Interesting Times
The mistake most leftists make is in believing that they have good intentions, and that therefore they’re going to get their rationally-willed social changes right, sooner or later, unlike stuck-in-the-mud conservatives, who clearly happily settle for yesterday’s mistaken ideas.
Why does the left believe this?
The main purpose of government-controlled public schools is to train and condition children to believe , no matter how unpleasant reality seems to be, that the authorities know best and it’s really all for your own good. Essentially, they’ve been successful.
After 12 years under government supervision, most of the youngsters believe this party line, not just the ‘left’. Why wouldn’t they? Only a relative handful of freaks, dissidents and disruptive elements act out against the system. That’s just the sad truth.
Frankly, the visible signs of teenage rebellion are useful to the system, as limited tolerance of properly-chanelled grievances can be useful to the basic party program of social “improvement”.
Get ready to be improved, or liquidated, one way or another. That’s the socialist program - finally, it’s all about who gets to kill.
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posted on
04/10/2008 11:02:41 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: Interesting Times
Thanks for the ping. My article
"Goodfellow's Bedfellows" has some relevant info in the bibliography on the Indochina Resource Center, which played a major role in influencing media coverage of events in Cambodia. I'd particularly recommend this item for well-documented criticism of media coverage of the subject:
Ear, Sophal. "The Khmer Rouge Canon 1975-1979: The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia". Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, May 1995.
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posted on
04/10/2008 11:13:08 AM PDT
by
Fedora
To: Interesting Times; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; All
The Bridge to Nowhere Liberals will keep repeating the same mistakes over and over.
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posted on
04/10/2008 11:20:57 AM PDT
by
potlatch
To: Interesting Times
A useful companion article from the other end of the political spectrum, relating it all to Iraq in a good way, can be found
here.
To: Interesting Times
It is “SEARED” into my memory.... As one of the first airplanes into Cambodia after Lon Nol came into power I came to know the Cambodian people as wonderful folks. To this day I am ashamed of what my government did to aid and abet the misery and genocide that was to follow... It gives me great pleasure however to give Jane Fonda a bath at my local American Legion post after a few beers!
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posted on
04/10/2008 12:08:18 PM PDT
by
RVN Airplane Driver
("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
To: zeugma
No sir. You are. Studies have been done on this, though not nearly enough due to the importance of the subject matter. Someone had to man the ovens, or work the killing fields, or kill millions in 'cultural revolutions'. Your statement was that more than 50% of the U.S. population is willing to commit political murders, which is a great exaggeration. Even in Nazi Germany, how many German citizens actually murdered civilians? No more than a fraction of a percent.
Unfortunately, that's all it takes.
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posted on
04/10/2008 12:39:12 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: Interesting Times
A good one. We all know it, but 90% of the US has no idea thanks to the MSM, hollywood and academia.
The three pillars of socialism and ideological fascism.
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posted on
04/10/2008 1:29:29 PM PDT
by
Bob J
("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one is striking at it's root.")
To: Interesting Times
...the Khmer Rouge was able to seize power only after the US Congress in 1975 cut off all aid to the embattled pro-American government of Lon Nol -- and that it did so despite frantic warnings of the bloodbath that would ensue. President Ford warned of "horror and tragedy" if Cambodia was abandoned to the Khmer Rouge and pleaded with Congress to supply Lon Nol's army with the tools it needed to defend itself.
Our leftists didn't care when it happened in Cambodia, didn't care when it happened in Viet Nam, and don't care that it will happen in Iraq.
Why? Could it be racial prejudice as well as hatred of the USA?
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posted on
04/10/2008 2:02:23 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: RoadKingSE; SunkenCiv
What I find amusing is that the less someone knows about Che Guevarra (namely that he was one of the 20th century’s biggest losers), the more likely he/she is to sport his picture.
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posted on
04/10/2008 2:19:38 PM PDT
by
Berosus
(Support our troops, bring them home -- from the Balkans.)
To: R. Scott
“Our leftists didn't care when it happened in Cambodia, didn't care when it happened in Viet Nam, and don't care that it will happen in Iraq.
Why? Could it be racial prejudice as well as hatred of the USA?”
When arguing with people that think we should pull out of Iraq, I usually ask them if they would be OK with another genocide similar to the one in Southeast Asia, caused by our governments abandonment of our allies in the region. They usually have no answer other than to bash the president and rant about how we are perceived by the rest of the world.
To: Interesting Times
Yes, this is worth a bookmark. Thanks for posting it.
The Communists called “leftists” or “liberals” are not ashamed of their support for any Communist genocide, because they believe all means including genocide are justified by the great and glorious goal of Communist utopia. As you said, nothing will convince them otherwise, but remembering and publishing the truth about Communist atrocities may influence rational people from whom that truth has been hidden.
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posted on
04/10/2008 2:46:50 PM PDT
by
zot
To: Fedora
Thanks for the ping. My article "Goodfellow's Bedfellows" has some relevant info in the bibliography on the Indochina Resource Center, which played a major role in influencing media coverage of events in Cambodia. I remember that one. Thanks for linking it.
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posted on
04/10/2008 2:49:43 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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