> Later the United States propped up the Cambodian > Kmehr Rouge party, which slaughtered millions of > innocent civilians with American arms to "cleanse" the Cambodian peoples (They were insane, but anti-communist -- good enough for the United States).
I just want to point out that the Khmer Rouge where not backed by the US (they backed the military government of Gen. Lon Nol, who came to power by a US-backed coup against the rightful leader King Sihanouk. Lon-Nol was pro-US and lost the civil war against the Khmer Rouge in 1975), they also where in no way anti-communist. On the opposite, they practised a barbaric, fanatic way of communism often refered to as stone age communism, thus committing genocide on millions of Cambodians by either killing them because they were "intellectuals" like doctors, pilots, bus drivers etc. or by letting them starve to death by destroying nearly all of Cambodia's infrastructure (they had the idea that modern civiliation represented the evils of capitalism).
The US surely commited several political crimes in this century, but this wasn't one of these (even if they accelerated the downfall of non-communist Cambodia by bringing the Indochina war to Cambodia).
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> Later the United States propped up the Cambodian > Kmehr Rouge party, which slaughtered millions of > innocent civilians with American arms to "cleanse" the Cambodian peoples (They were insane, but anti-communist -- good enough for the United States).
I just want to point out that the Khmer Rouge where not backed by the US (they backed the military government of Gen. Lon Nol, who came to power by a US-backed coup against the rightful leader King Sihanouk. Lon-Nol was pro-US and lost the civil war against the Khmer Rouge in 1975), they also where in no way anti-communist. On the opposite, they practised a barbaric, fanatic way of communism often refered to as stone age communism, thus committing genocide on millions of Cambodians by either killing them because they were "intellectuals" like doctors, pilots, bus drivers etc. or by letting them starve to death by destroying nearly all of Cambodia's infrastructure (they had the idea that modern civiliation represented the evils of capitalism).
The US surely commited several political crimes in this century, but this wasn't one of these (even if they accelerated the downfall of non-communist Cambodia by bringing the Indochina war to Cambodia).