Obama's Texas girls gather under the Cuban flag and their other hero - Che - to advance the cause of stupidity. I mean Change.
Posted on 04/10/2008 8:01:03 AM PDT by Interesting Times
The death of Pol Pot, 23 years to the day after he and the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia, occasioned long backward glances at one of the 20th century's most horrific genocides. It was noted everywhere that the communist reign of terror in Cambodia lasted nearly four years and that at least 1 million human beings -- by some estimates as many as 2 1/2 million -- were murdered in an orgy of executions, torture, and starvation.
"In the name of a radical utopia," The New York Times recalled in its long obituary, "the Khmer Rouge regime had turned most of the people into slaves.... Dictatorial village leaders and soldiers told the people whom to marry and how to live, and those who disobeyed were killed. [Those] who did not bend to the political mania were buried alive, or tossed into the air and speared on bayonets. Some were fed to crocodiles." Nearby was a photograph of human skulls -- emblem of the dreadful "killing fields" in which the communists butchered a quarter of Cambodia's people.
But nowhere in the Times story was there a reminder that the Khmer Rouge was able to seize power only after the US Congress in 1975 cut off all aid to the embattled pro-American government of Lon Nol -- and that it did so despite frantic warnings of the bloodbath that would ensue. President Ford warned of "horror and tragedy" if Cambodia was abandoned to the Khmer Rouge and pleaded with Congress to supply Lon Nol's army with the tools it needed to defend itself.
To no avail. US troops had come home two years earlier, but American antiwar activists were still intent on effecting the "liberation" of Southeast Asia. Radicals like Jane Fonda, David Dellinger, and Tom Hayden stormed the country...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
It amazing how liberals can feel guilty about things they had nothing to do with like slavery, but can’t take responsibility for things which they directly caused, like Cambodia.
That remains to be seen.
It's hard to hold onto that virtuous and morally superior feeling if you admit to yourself that you helped enable a genocide... so they just think about other things.
Exactly. The film was a pre-emptive move to confuse the public and deflect criticism of the American left.
Let us also recall Noam Chomsky’s support for this murderous regime. True to form, he at first denied the slaughter, then made excuses for it, then denied that he ever denied it in the first place.
Chomsky’s a towering monument to the intellectual dishonesty and moral bankruptcy of the Left.
The blood of millions is on their hands.
Such people are unfit to live in a free society.
Thanks for the ping.
While it is true that you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, these guys broke 120 million with no omelette to show for it.
Time to rethink the recipe? Nothing doing! They wanna keep trying!
They, the same leftists, are doing the same now concerning Iraq. Are they shamed by their past actions? Absolutely not!
Do we ever see pictures or reminders of 09/11/01? No! That would remind us why we oppose them and their insanity.
This same tedious Schanberg won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the horrors that followed—which his columns in the Times had been instrumental in bringing about. A Cambodian stringer who had befriended him, Dith Pran, spent years in Pol Pot's torture prisons and reeducation collectives. He survived and escaped, no thanks to Schanberg, who wrote a book about him (later a movie) called The Killing Fields—a phrase coined by Dith.
Dith survived and became a news photog. He died the other day at 65 of cancer. Schanberg spoke at the Buddhist service. I think it would have been justice at last if Schanberg had thrown himself on the funeral pyre.
Liberals are communists as demonstrated by both their ideas and by the communist leaders they support; Pol-Pot, Stalin, etc.
In 1949, Pol Pot went to study in Paris on a government scholarship. It was here that he got his introduction to Communism, joining the French Communist Party. After four years of exposure to Stalinist Communism he returned to Cambodia in 1953. Within a month he had joined the Communist resistance, becoming a member of the Indochina Communist Party (IHC) which was dominated by the Viet Minh.
Source: http://www.essortment.com/all/polpotbiograp_rxdy.htm Source:
I'll settle for "discredited." Equally effective, and much less messy.
ping for later
And the media still scoffs at the "Domino Theory." Sickening. Opponents of surrender only erred in underestimating the resulting horrors.
Obama's Texas girls gather under the Cuban flag and their other hero - Che - to advance the cause of stupidity. I mean Change.
I had to laugh...I saw this, then saw it was from the Boston Globe and thought “Huh?”
My next thought was “This has to be Jeff Jacoby...”
Sure enough...:)
And of course the same was true of Ho Chi Minh. From page 111 of Dr. Robert Turner's excellent 2004 paper, The Boston Manifesto:
Numerous biographies of Ho written and translated into English by Vietnamese Communists— material that was readily available to any American who bothered to do a bit of research during the war— openly discussed Ho’s role as a cofounder of the French Communist Party in 1920, his subsequent training in Moscow, and his three decades of employment outside Indochina as an agent of the Communist International (COMINTERN) promoting revolution around the world.
‘Discredited’ would be neater and far less messy, no doubt. But history has shown us over and over again that such people won’t just shrug their shoulders and walk away. They believe that their sick dreams or utopia and the power required to make it happen are all the justification they need. They don’t give a rat’s ass what sane people think. Behind their lust for power is a murderous hatred and contempt of humankind. History is my witness.
The only way that the Left will ever “give up” is when we’re all in chains or they’re all dead.
Not to mention their half-baked ban of DDT. Millions of people have died of malaria because of this, and many millions more have suffered needlessly as well.
All because of their half baked opinions about DDT. (Liberals and environwhackos)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.