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"Pol Pot was a political leader whose communist Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork. One detention center, S-21, was so notorious that only seven of the roughly 20,000 people imprisoned there are known to have survived. The Khmer Rouge, in their attempt to socially engineer a classless communist society, took particular aim at intellectuals, city residents, ethnic Vietnamese, civil servants and religious leaders. Some historians regard the Pol Pot regime as one of the most barbaric and murderous in recent history."
Everything is hunky-dory with the commies.
The IRGC are nice guys in Tehran.
JFK said this would happen, that if we simply left that South Vietnam would fall and then the other countries in the region would fall like dominoes. Then all of those horrors that communists do would ensue. Communists gonna' do what communists do. Douglass and DiEugenio truly think they are nice people ("liberals in a hurry" as the expression goes) and that the only reason they opposed us was because we, those militarists and neo-fascists in the country, forced them to. If we played nice with them they would reciprocate. This is what they think. And that is what they think JFK thought. How much more history of how communist behave, how they engage in mass murder and repression, must be shown? An entire century of it should be enough. JFK knew this even if they don't.
The very fact that we left in 1973 and the communists continued to wage war - in Vietnam, in Laos, in Cambodia - puts a lie to the claim that they wanted peace, that we could work in good faith with them. Hanoi didn't want peace; they wanted South Vietnam - not in the name of Vietnamese nationalism but in the name of communism (it's why they supported the Pathet Lao and the Khmer Rouge; why would nationalists support communists groups in other countries?). Once we left that's what they got.
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