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The holocaust in Cambodia committed by the Khmer communists was one direct result of our failure in Vietnam. And it took the fall of the Berlin Wall and the br
by newbie12 14y ago
The holocaust in Cambodia committed by the Khmer communists was one direct result of our failure in Vietnam. And it took the fall of the Berlin Wall and the broad collapse of communist ideology in the 1990s before Vietnam began to liberalize.
- jeltz 14y agoSome blame the American bombings, which started with Operation Menu in 1969, for giving Pol Pot the popular support he needed. I do not know enough of Cambodian history to tell if it is true, but at least it sounds like a plausible scenario.
- GiraffeNecktie 14y agoCorrelation is not causation. One could just as easily argue that it was the intervention of western powers (France and the US) in Southeast Asia that gave the communists legitimacy which then lead to the holocaust in Cambodia. Liberalization in Vietnam had more to do with changes in China and improved relations with the United States, than the Berlin Wall.