[Question_Assumptions]

Yes, and when they cut funding to Lon Nol, he looked like a military dictator and the Khmer Rouge looked like intellectual communist agrarian reformers. The real question is whether FARC, like the Khmer Rouge, will wind up killing a substantial portion of Columbia's population if they were to get into power. The track record for communits revolutionaries is really pretty bad on this stuff.

[kingsurfer]

I am pretty sure whoever gets in will be in the pay of the druglords but will claim not to be.

[Skywalk]

Well, the problem is, Cambodia, unlike Vietnam, was not in need of agrarian reform. In fact, it was a pretty egalitarian society and there was not a huge mass of desperately poor people and an oppressive overclass.

I know what you meant, but I highly doubt people with leftist sympathies really believe that junk. They just want "their guys" to win.