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I need someone with a military background to explain this to me.

William Goodfellow [Director of the Center for International Studies], "Starvation In
Cambodia," Op-Ed, New York Times, July 14, 1975, p. 25. An excerpt:
The evacuation of Cambodia's larger cities has been sensationalized in the
Western press as a "death march." In fact, it was a journey away from certain death
by starvation, for at the time the former Phnom Penh Government surrendered,
starvation was already a reality in the urban centers, and widespread famine only a
matter of weeks away, while in the countryside there was a sizable food surplus. . . .
The coup d'état of 1970 was followed by five years of death, suffering and
destruction, with 600,000 Cambodians on both sides killed. Primarily because of a
large-scale United States bombing campaign in which 539,129 tons of bombs were
dropped on the Cambodian countryside, the agrarian economy was shattered. . . .
Last March, the director of the United States Agency for International Development in
Cambodia, Norman Sweet, estimated that in Phnom Penh alone 1.2 million people
were in "desperate need" of United States food. . . . A.I.D. officials reported that
stockpiles of rice in Phnom Pehn could last for six days.

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Ask and you shall receive:

William Goodfellow, director of the World Policy Institute think tank, is a fierce critic of Bolton. But he agrees that the U.N. is ''a dumping ground for bureaucrats.'' It's the place where governments get jobs for family, tribe and friends, and also the place to send bureaucrats they want to get rid of at home.

But Goodfellow points out that Bolton's undiplomatic style is alienating America's allies and in the process is likely squandering a rare chance to remake the U.N. None of America's allies agree with Bolton's ultimatum on the budget.

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William Goodfellow [Director of the Center for International Studies], "Starvation In Cambodia," Op-Ed, New York Times, July 14, 1975, p. 25.

"...... Followed by five years of death, suffering and destruction, with 600,000 Cambodians on both sides killed. Primarily because of a large-scale
United States bombing campaign in which 539,129tons of bombs were dropped on the Cambodian countryside, the agrarian economy was shattered. . . ."

Forget the garnishment....the sound bite he wanted to plant and resonate was: We murdered 600,000 thousand Cambodians by destroying
their farms and crops. America is starving the Cambodians to death.
America is committing genocide, just like they did to their Native Americans when they shot all those buffalo. Americans rank right up there with the
top "scorched earth" practitioners in history, Attila, Adolf Hitler....you get the idea.

Never mind that we feed what? Half the world? and most of it is for free.