Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political purposes for which the crimes were committed have been forgotten. No one speaks of the war crimes of Vietnam, though many of the White House horrors were associated with them. There are no news films of bombed-out Cambodian villages--only interviews with those who years ago made the decision to destroy them. The unreasonable fears, the racism and the misuses of power remain unrecognized enemies. Philadelphians are more suspicious of politicians now, but even less critical of their politics...
This view is lent plausibility by the lack of evidence of Russian belligerency and above all by the frequency with which Nixon has distorted the truth and lied outright in the past. These deceptions range from his tales of respect for Cambodian neutrality when his bombers had been killing Cambodians for two years to his misrepresentations of Elliot Richardson's and Thomas Jefferson's political positions during his press conference last week. Henry Kissinger is of course correct in saying that questions about the motives behind the alert are symptomatic of what's happening to the United States...
...Most Cambodian farmers have never heard of Elliot Richardson. Their world view most likely extends no farther than the particular region of Cambodia in which they live. The occasional trip to Phnom Penh to market rice is like entering a different universe, beyond the pale of comprehension. Cambodians know nothing of the intricacies of American politics--their only contact with this country occurs when its bombers whine overhead...
Elliot Richardson was Secretary of Defense for the first few months of the Cambodian bombing. He was out front for Richard Nixon, defending the air war against mounting criticism...
Indochina has been forgotten and Elliot Richardson, one of the greater and lesser men responsible for the war crimes, is now a hero. Richardson, who never stood up for the Cambodian people, stood up for Archibald Cox '33. So he is the man of the hour, and Indochina is forgotten...