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With this revelation, even the flimsiest rationale for the American air strikes fades away. The U.S. air strikes are clearly intended to intervene in a Cambodian civil dispute, and constitute an illegal and unwarranted interference in Cambodian internal affairs...
...dictatorial Lon Nol regime reorganized itself last week, reportedly at the behest of the United States. The reorganization is supposed to pave the way for negotiations with the liberation armies who have surrounded the capital of Phnom Penh and threatened the survival of the Cambodian dictatorship...
...same assertion was repeated three days later by Kissinger, when he said that since the "Cambodian insurgents" comprised three factions--one oriented toward and supported by the Soviet Union, another with ties to North Vietnam, and the third linked with the Chinese--the big obstacle to peace negotiations is finding someone to talk with...
...deteriorate, however, and there is nothing Nixon can do to weaken the revolutionary Khmer forces? One cannot rule out the possibility of the rebombardment of North Vietnam. One can see this in the fact that although Western sources and American officials in Cambodia have consistently admitted that the Cambodian forces are dling all their fighting and that at most there are several thousand Vietnamese providing nothing more than advice and heavy weapons support (Christian Science Monitor, April 9, 1973; New York Times, March 28 and April 11, 1973; and so on), the Nixon administration and the Thieu regime have insisted...
...Cambodia may endanger Thieu's own position, he insisted that the United States should continue to give air support to the Lon Nol regime. The same line of argument had been advanced by Defense Secretary Richardson a few days earlier when he admitted that the collapse of the Cambodian government would have a "significant" effect on the viability of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam...