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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (95349)	2/1/2005 2:34:25 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh no!!! That green is not chartreuse!!! Oh, whatever!!!! You did not challenge my source, a well respected journalist who has written several books about international affairs, until you ran out of squirming room. Now I see you are doing so out of desperation. When I think of how precious time is, I am sure I do not want to spend it watching you waffle on subject after subject. The author I quoted is saying exactly the same thing that several other authors whose tracts were posted here is saying about Pol Pot. What is it about the truth that you find so disturbing, anyway? I am having trouble believing you are actually reading anything I post. Let's try it once more. Do you see the word COMPLICITY there? "It is all too easy and too dangerous to remember Pol Pot as a unique monster. What is remarkable about the U.S. coverage of his death is the omission of U.S. complicity in his rise to power, a complicity that sustained him for almost two decades. For the truth is that Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge would be historical nonentities--and a great many people would be alive today--had Washington not helped bring them to power and the governments of the United States, Britain, China and Thailand not supported them, armed them, sustained them and restored them. In other words, the iconic images of the piles of skulls ought to include those who, often at great remove in distance and culture, were Pol Pot's accessories and Faustian partners for the purposes of their own imperial imperatives."