The Sequel To The Vietnam War

From Mona Charen's Useful Idiots : How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First:

There was a sequel to the Vietnam War. For three years and eight months, beginning in April 1975, when the Communist Khmer Rouge movement defeated the forces of Marshall Lon Nol, the little nation of Cambodia was plunged into hell. Americans were not watching. They had turned their backs on Southeast Asia and were enjoying the first years of "peace". But for those left behind, for America's former allies, there was no peace.

The victorious Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) rolled into Phnom Penh and began a systematic war on the entire population so savage that it almost defies description. Estimates of the number of dead range between 1.5 and 2 million out of a nation of 7 million. At least one million were executed and another million died of starvation and disease that were the direct consequences of government policy.

In a nation of Cambodia's size, two million deaths represents between one quarter and one third of the population. The Khmer Rouge caused this enormous number of deaths in less than four years.

Comments

[Woody]

Now, can we stop arguing if the "domino theory" was correct?