[lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns

[Willy Greenfields]

> I would have thought that no U.S. support for Lon
> Nol would have 
> meant that the Khmer Rouge would have taken over
> more quickly, no? 
> Once Sihanouk threw his support to the Khmer Rouge,
> avoiding their 
> genocide would have required keeping Lon Nol in
> power...

...if one confines ones analysis to elites. But
without a radicalized and infuriated peasantry, would
the KR have enjoyed much popular support? Weren't they
a (small) bunch of essential nobodies in a remote
northeastern province at the start of the bombing?

Not (strictly) to be a prick, I also recall the US
doing everything possible to undermine Sihanouk's
attempts to position Cambodia as a non-aligned country.

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