"After Saigon fell to North Vietnam in 1975, the summary executions of tens of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese began... Tens of thousands of South Vietnamese boat people perished in the Gulf of Thailand and in the South China sea... The anti-war movement in America also facilitated the communist takeovers of Laos and Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge victory in Cambodia led to a killing field in which some three million Cambodians were exterminated. Paul Johnson has given a succinct, detailed, gut-wrenching account of this tragedy in his classic work Modern Times." - Jamie Glazov on May 14, 2002
"When Nixon went down in Watergate, the Democrats cut the aid as their first legislative act. They did this in January 1975. In April, the Cambodian and South Vietnamese regimes fell... In 1975 the Democrats cut military and economic aid to the two regimes we had been defending against the Communists... Within three years the Communist victors had slaughtered 2.5 million people." - David Horowitz on October 14, 2004 at Geogetown University
Makes me physically sick to think about this. I watched the movie "The Killing Fields" ~ regardless of some of the slant to the movie, you cannot come away from watching that believing that Communism is a good thing, or that the US did the right thing pulling out or pulling aid. God bless those poor people.
David Horowitz is here combining the totals from Cambodia and South Vietnam...does he say elsewhere what figure he accepts for the number of victims of the Khmer Rouge?