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In the news columns of The New York Times, the celebrated Sydney Schanberg wrote of Cambodians that ``it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone.'' He dismissed predictions of mass executions in the wake of a Khmer Rouge victory: ``It would be tendentious to forecast such abnormal behavior as national policy under a Communist government once the war is over.'' On April 13, 1975, Schanberg's dispatch from Phnom Penh was headlined, ``Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life.''

This is why I said on another thread that although "The Killing Fields" is a great movie, it made me sick at the time to watch it. Because that poor American reporter who felt so sorry for the suffering of his Cambodian assistant was one of the people RESPONSIBLE for that atrocity.

It wasn't Richard Nixon who was responsible, as the media have made everyone believe through their rewrite of history. It was the leftist news reporters and the leftist politicians and the leftist students and faculty who were responsible.

The blood of millions was on their hands, yet the movie tries to make it look as if they were entirely innocent of it.

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The blood of millions was on their hands, yet the movie tries to make it look as if they were entirely innocent of it.

Exactly. The film was a pre-emptive move to confuse the public and deflect criticism of the American left.