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To: Brumar89 who wrote (17081)	9/12/2002 12:42:44 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge was committing genocide in Cambodia. Vietnam wanted to intervene. The U.S. opposed this, even though it was clearly in the best interests of the Cambodian people to rid themselves of Pol Pot. <<< With US backing, China supplied the Khmer Rouge with military equipment and the right-wing military regime in Thailand, a US client state, allowed free flow of supplies to Pol Pot's guerrillas in their base camps along the Thai-Cambodian border. As Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's national security adviser, later admitted, "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could." Equally important was the diplomatic support from the United States and other imperialist powers, which recognized the Khmer Rouge as the legitimate government of Cambodia and backed the seating of Pol Pot's representative as the Cambodian delegate to the United Nations for more than a decade. Throughout the 1980s the Reagan administration blocked international efforts to characterize the events of 1975-78 in Cambodia as genocide or to hold the Khmer Rouge leadership responsible for mass murder, since it would undercut the American alliance with Pol Pot. >>> wsws.org

To: Brumar89 who wrote (17081)	9/28/2002 11:46:31 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

More details on 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. >>> zmag.org