> On 7/16/05, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> has chapter headings and repeated usages of Khmer Rouge w/o scare
>> quotes.
>
> Perhaps that key on their typewriter was broken.
>
>> You still think that the genocide of the KR was exaggerated?!
>
> The genocide in Cambodia was when the US air force dropped half a
> million tons worth of bombs on the Cambodian countryside. The US
> government/media stopped trying to sell the "KR is evil" story in 1979
> when they did a 180 turn and began backing the CPK.
>
Why can't there be multiple villains? By bombing the hell out of the countryside, the US killed so many people and destabilized the country so much that an insane group like the KR could take over and kill many more people.
It's true that after the US killed many hundreds of thousands of people, they don't have a big moral leg to stand on in talking about others' butchery in Cambodia, but that doesn't make the KR any less murderous.