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To: rabscuttle385
You really want to be citing this maggot, Rabs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Schanberg

Following years of U.S. carpet bombing campaigns over Cambodia and Laos, Schanberg wrote in The New York Times about the departure of the Americans and the coming regime change, writing about the Cambodians that "it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone." The Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975 and killed approximately two million people. A dispatch he wrote on April 13, 1975, written from Phnom Penh, ran with the headline "Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life."[1] However, in the same piece, Schanberg also wrote, "This is not to say that the Communist-backed governments which will replace the American clients can be expected to be benevolent. Already, in Cambodia, there is evidence in the areas led by the Communist-led Cambodian insurgents that life is hard and inflexible, everything that Cambodians are not." However, in the same article, Schanberg then went on to reject claims that the communist takeover of Cambodia could lead to state-sponsored genocide: "Wars nourish brutality and sadism, and sometimes certain people are executed by the victors but it would be tendentious to forecast such abnormal behavior as a national policy under a Communist government once the war is over."

16 posted on 03/05/2010 1:16:12 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

Sydney H. Schanberg is a leftwing wacko of the worst kind. He has a major responsibility for those two million Cambodian deaths.


22 posted on 03/05/2010 1:22:17 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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