Laurel, Maryland: Cambodia wasn't really a neutral power in the Vietnam War. Prince Sianouk, if I 
recall correctly, spent an incredible amount of time in Beijing. If the Cambodians had been 
neutral, they would have made an effort to dislodge the NVA/VC. If the Cambodians could not,
then they could not object if the U.S. tried to dislodge them. It's rough politics, but not a
war crime any more than the German torpedoing of the USS REUBEN JAMES was in 1941. 

Christopher Hitchens: I've found that people who say they want "rough politics" usually don't; 
I feel certain that you would not admit the right of Vietnam to bomb West Germany or the 
United Kingdom for harboring US bases and resupply networks. As it happens, ever since 
the founding of the UN the US cast its vote against any country (Britain, France, Israel) 
which tried to extend hot pursuit of insurgents into invasion of a third country. 
Sihanouk in Beijing! It was for Sihanouk's sake that Kissinger said he kept the bombing 
a secret! Look it up. And how come the Reagan administrattion insisted, after all
that, in seating the Khmer Rouge as Cambodia's sole rep at the UN. The point about the Indochina
war is that EVERYBODY was double-crossed and betrayed.