Killing Fields

[Martin Hash]

The Domino Theory was 1960s fear-mongering that excused self-righteous American meddling in the affairs of other nations. Unfortunately, it was also correct in its prophecy, and when the U.S. gave up, the dominoes did fall. In the mid-1980s, the movie "The Killing Fields" came out & it was a sensation. It was yet another Marxist travesty that few people knew anything about because Marxist-sympathizers, particularly in Sweden, were duped. Combine that with the bad taste for Cambodia left over from the Vietnam War, and genocide based on envy & resentment, just like Mao's Cultural Revolution, was allowed to occur yet again. A third of Cambodia's population killed because they lived in cities, had smooth hands, or wore glasses. The Western Nations still recognized Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge, including a seat at the U.N., for two decades after he was driven from power by Vietnam.

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Going to the site of the atrocity affected me similar to my visits to Dachau, Rwanda, Armenia, or any other of the places I've visited which have 100s, sometimes 1000s, of bodies buried in mass graves, which is to say, sobering but not surprised. I think this kind of thing is natural, otherwise it would not be so common.

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[Smitty-48]

Er, but the United States never let the Dominoes fall in Cambodia, first the Americans wrecked Cambodia with a massive bombing campaign, then staged a coup de tat against Prince Sihanouk and installed the dictator Lon Nol, then when that regime was overthrown by the Khmer Rouge, suddenly America switched to supporting the Khmer Rouge, for "stability" as an ostensible "counterwieght" to the Vietnamese, who were the only ones fighting the genocidal scourge of the Khmer Rouge, the fact that Vietnamese Communists were then fighting against American backed Cambodian Communists, rendering the whole Domino Theory an utter absurdity in the first place.

[Speaker to Animals]

"Domino theory" was an example of how abstract, borderline Orwellian rhetoric, can be quite dangerous to the global community.

[SuburbanFarmer]

He's really got to be regretting letting us in here by now.

[TheReal_ND]

Go to the Stalingrad bone yard Dan spoke of. I've seen very few pics.