[Interesting Times]

This one is worth a bookmark.

[FiddlePig]

When one stops to comtemplate taking the statements of say... Al Gore or Ted Turner to their logical conclusion, how different would their “utopia” of a no-CO2 world differ from the Khmer Rouge? Large portions of the world’s population would be doomed to poverty and famine... and of course the “select” (like Al & Ted) among us would be exempt from the laws the rest of us must live by!

I’m amazed how many leftists like the NY Slimes (et al) at first praised the great socialist “experiment” in Cambodia till it became undeniable that a slaughter was taking place... then their convienent amnesia takes place... and they act as if they were outraged by the genocide all along!!!! And somehow(?) still manged to blame the U.S. for it!!!! Go figure?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the ping.

[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'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.

[potlatch]

The Bridge to Nowhere

Liberals will keep repeating the same mistakes over and over.

[R. Scott]

...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?

[zot]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the ping. This is one more lesson plan on the subject of communist (and terrorist) sympathizers that has gotten swept under the nation’s rug. I’m glad to see it mentioned here by the Boston Globe no less. Amazing...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!