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Nixon's announcement must have come as no real surprise to observers and political analysis on Capitol Hill. Only the day before, several thousand South Vietnamese troops had crossed into Cambodia for the second time in one week: this time, they had been accompanied by American advisors, equipment, and tactical bomber support. In recent weeks, Nixon had came under heavy Congressional fire for his escalation of the conflict in Laos, and criticism of the President's "Laotian strategy" reached its peak with the embarrassing revelation that, contrary to the Administration's contention, one American advisor and twenty-six American civilims...
...surface, it appeared that Nixon's goal in ordering troops across the border was to destroy the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong s??les that ?? just inside Cambodia, from the Gulf of Siam to as far north is the Laotian border. But the aimlessness that characterized the first several days of the American operation suggests strongly that the U.S. command had more clandestine goals in Cambodia than Nixon was willing to acknowledge. It seems likely, in fact, that a primary goal of the invasion was to provide support for the right-wing military junta that seized power in Cambodia...
...forces behind the coup-which toppled the neutralist regime at Prince Norodom Sihanouk-had lately come under sharp attack from opposition troops within Cambodia, and the insurgents had driven to within 50 miles of the capital city. Phnom Penh, by the time the Americans and South Vietnamese attacked across the border. Until, that time, the besieged junta had been pleading for support from neighboring nations, and was confining to do so, particularity in the United Nations, even after the Allied operation...
...Sihanouk regime, While in power. Sihanouk's government was characterized by its refusal to allow any American influence in the country, by its avowed antagonism to the U.S. presence in South Asia. To this end, Sihanouk had permitted North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces to use eastern Cambodia as a staging ground for operations against Allied troops in South Vietnam. In the Administration's view, the anti-NLF regime of Lon Nol was far more amicable to America's goals in Indochina-the U.S. government extended diplomatic recognition to the military junta and the use of American spotter planes...
...Vietnamese forces in Cambodia were only a part of the domestic opposition which Lon Nol faced. It is interesting that Vietnamese may now actually be in the minority of the insurgent forces. When the junta decided to cut off the sale of foodstuffs to the Vietnamese, it became necessary for the military to engage in wholesale massacres of entire villages to enforce their decision. Further, the group which formed the clite corps of Lon Nol's army-the ??called "young Khmers"-were sponsored by the C.I.A when they operated against Sihanouk from bases in Vietnam and Thailand before they joined...