US Bombing of Cambodia Helped Pol POt. New Data on Extent of the Bombing.

I guess this will be in the future for Iraq, Afghanistan etc. 30 plus years from after they put themselves together again pehaps after a genocide or two. Could be a bit depressing.

This is when it is comforting to know that , as a country and as a government, not merely as idividuals, that we are the best.
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United States bombings in Afghanistan have "given a propaganda windfall to the Taliban.” [1] Is history repeating itself? In 1975, Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge forces took power in Cambodia after a massive U.S. bombing campaign there. New information reveals that Cambodia was bombed far more heavily during the Vietnam War than previously believed — and that the bombing began not under Richard Nixon, but under Lyndon Johnson.

In the fall of 2000, twenty-five years after the end of the war in Indochina, Bill Clinton became the first US president since Richard Nixon to visit Vietnam. While media coverage of the trip was dominated by talk of some two thousand US soldiers still classified as missing in action, a small act of great historical importance went almost unnoticed.

As a humanitarian gesture, Clinton released extensive Air Force data on all American bombings of Indochina between 1964 and 1975. Recorded using a groundbreaking IBM-designed system, the database provided extensive information on sorties conducted over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Clinton’s gift was intended to assist in the search for unexploded ordnance left behind during the carpet bombing of the region.

Littering the countryside, often submerged under farmland, this ordnance remains a significant humanitarian concern. It has maimed and killed farmers, and rendered valuable land all but unusable. Development and de-mining organizations have put the Air Force data to good use over the past six years, but have done so without noting its full implications, which turn out to be staggering.

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Interesting. I never heard that band before, but I had heard the nam.e

It looks lke good exercise for the singer and some of the dancers. Does it take long to learn how to dance like that? Any free lessonsaround?

Has this type of dancing replaced traditional Cambodian steps after the Genocide?

 

Sishir, given the genocide and killing of millions, would you agree that it was a gigantic cluster **** mess up or just a mistake, and as we know no country can be perfect all the time.