But some Americans paved the way for the downfall of Lon Nol and the rise to power of the Khymer Rouge:
"The growing hysteria of the administration's posture on Cambodia, seems to me to reflect a determined refusal to consider what the fall of the existing government in Phnom Penh would actually mean.... We should be able to see that the kind of government which would succeed Lon Nol's forces would most likely be a government ... run by some of the best-educated, most able intellectuals in Cambodia."---Senator George McGovern"The `loss' of Cambodia would ... be the salvation of the Cambodians . . . the rebels are unlikely to kill more innocent civilians than are being slaughtered by the rockets promiscuously hitting Phnom Penh."--Stanley Karnow
"The Cambodian people will finally be rescued from the horrors of a war that never really had any meaning (by the fall of Lon Nol)."--The New Republic
"The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now."--Chris Dodd (D-CT)
"Mass explusions are the only way to start on their vision of a new society. . .The whole bloodbath debate is unreal. What future could possibly be more terrible than the reality of what is happening to Cambodia now? . . .Americans are guilty of cultural arrogance, an imperial assumption, that ... our way of life would be better"--Anthony Lewis ,The New York Times.
"It would be tendentious to forecast such abnormal behavior (mass executions) as national policy under a Communist government once the war is over."--Sydney Schanberg, The New York Times.
I got the impression Ann did not have the vaguest idea who supported who during this era.
You don't see people trying to get into these other countries, no they all want to come here. Come to America. If I heard it correct? Anyone remember that question she was asking Ann?
Me too. It was a little distressing to see Ann let that little bastard's libel lay there unchallenged.