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Private Joker educates the Colonel

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[SCE2AUX]

Of course, after the fall of Saigon, most of those gooks DID try to get out. Those poor oppressed communists murdered a huge number of those that didn't.

[Jtown1ification]

What is this? A history lesson?  The part where he says hes going to take a giant shit on him is the funniest thing Ive heard in a week!

[DrCruel]

@Dualismoassoluto Actually the aid was to Cambodian refugees in Thailand, but I suspect to the Vietnamese it amounted to the same thing. I had a friend from Cambodia I went to school with - he told me how the Vietnamese would regularly lob mortar rounds into teh refugee camps in Thai territory - they really wanted those people to be killed.

Of course it's academic since 1998, when the Khmer Rouge formally joined the Vietnamese communist party as junior partners ...

[DrCruel]

@Dualismoassoluto More like the hammer and sickle. Helping someone defend against an invasion is different from financing the conquest of another country.

But that's all over now. The Indochinese people are now the property of their benevolent Marxist in Hanoi. Given the growth over the last decade in their export trade to the US, those hard working slaves have proven to be a very lucrative property too.

[Dualismoassoluto]

3 - "International relief agencies were pressured by the U.S. to provide humanitarian assistance to the Khmer Rouge guerrillas who fled into Thailand." (Jack Colhoun)

[Dualismoassoluto]

2 - "For the U.S., playing the "China card" has meant sustaining the Khmer Rouge as a geopolitical counterweight capable of destabilizing the Hun Sen government in Cambodia and its Vietnamese allies." (Jack Colhoun))

[Dualismoassoluto]

1 - "After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the U.S.-worried by the shift in the Southeast Asian balance of power-turned once again to geopolitical confrontation. It quickly formalized an anti-Vietnamese, anti-Soviet strategic alliance with China-an alliance whose disastrous effects have been most evident in Cambodia." (Jack Colhoun, Covert Action Quarterly magazine, Summer 1990)

[Dualismoassoluto]

@Dualismoassoluto

Indochina was a Cold War battlefield, and who payed the highest price? The Vietnamese people - and the Cambodians.

[Dualismoassoluto]

@DrCruel

Ok, but the South Vietnamese Gov was financed by the United States. So the Vietnamese people (who lived in the North and the South of the country) were caught between the hammer and the anvil.

[DrCruel]

@Dualismoassoluto My point of view is common sensical.

Don't trust me. Do your own research. Look up news articles on contemporary Indochinese politics. Check out what's been happening since Clinton signed that trade agreement back in 1998.

Follow the money. It's not a hard trail to find.