Cambodja, Khmer Rouge e os "Liberators"

... e as maravilhas de uma politica externa activa (prova que mesmo os realistas cometem os piores dos erros):

Lewrockwell: (...) funny to see this regimist adding a new smear against Rothbard as well: that he cheered on Pol Pot. In fact, the Republicans supported this mass-murderer because they hated Prince Sianhouk for his neutralism, and the Khmer Rouge were fanatically anti-Vietnamese and would be de facto US allies. Thus the mass-murderer Nixon's massive "secret" bombing of Cambodia. Republicans continued to back Pol Pot right up through the Reagan administration.

William L. Anderson: Lew Rockwell's post regarding Cambodia points to a truly sorry tale of American politics. As everyone knows, the Khmer Rouge, one of the most fanatical of all communist movements, emptied the cities of Cambodia and killed millions of people, many through torture and murder and many from starvation.

Now, Pol Pot and his minions planned this whole thing when they were graduate students in France -- no doubt with the approval of their Marxist professors -- but the United States made the takeover much easier after having destroyed Cambodia through invasions and bombings in 1970. (Even LBJ, who was mostly responsible for the Vietnam War, would not go into Cambodia, but Nixon and Kissinger had no qualms about it.)

It did not take long for the news to come out about the outright murder and brutality of the Khmer Rouge government. The American left, however, refused to believe the stories and people like Noam Chomsky and Gareth Porter, who represented a wing of the United Methodist Church, openly praised the defended the regime. (That is why I will not listen to anything Chomsky has to say. He has yet to apologize for endorsing mass murder, so the man is a moral reprobate, period.)

In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and pushed out the Khmer regime, and it was then that many of the full horrors of what happened were revealed. However, the Carter Administration opposed the invasion and demanded that Vietnam leave and turn back the reins of government to the "legitimate" government of Pol Pot. The Reagan Administration continued what the Carterite State Department had begun.

The irony here is that the heroic "liberators" in this situation were the Vietnamese communists. But Americans, who were more responsible for the turmoil and carnage in Southeast Asia than anyone else, insisted that only the US of A could be "liberators" and everyone else was an Evil Commie. Thus, we had a situation in which the United States Government, claiming its "liberator" status, officially supported the return to power of one of the most genocidal regimes in all of history. And both Democrats and Republicans (Why am I not surprised?) took part in this sorry episode.

PS: Se alguém quiser fornecer outra perspectiva do assunto sou todo ouvidos...mas ainda existe quem pense que foi a vitória dos Vietcongs que conduziu à vitória dos khmers vermelhos (quando na verdade foi um erro americano que o induziu, o bombardeament do Cambodja levou directamente à deposição do Principe...esta mania de ajudar a derrubar monarquias - começou na Grande Guerra - para serem substituidas pelos piores regimes da civilização...).