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To: Thomas M. who started this subject9/28/2002 11:49:22 AM
From: Thomas M.Read Replies (3) of 1296
 
U.S. support for Pol Pot:

<<< Vietnam's December 1979 invasion after murderous Khmer Rouge attacks on Vietnamese border areas, driving out Pol Pot and terminating his atrocities, was portrayed by US leaders and political commentators as a profound shock to their delicate sensibilities. Naturally these apostles of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, so devoted to international law, could react in only one way: by helping to reconstitute the Khmer Rouge at the border, granting the Pol Pot government diplomatic recognition, and insisting on a central Khmer Rouge role in any settlement. To punish the perpetrators of this crime of aggression, they also had to maintain the embargo that had been "bleeding Vietnam," as the Far Eastern Economic Review described the doctrine. >>>

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