Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford Administration has said that if Cambodia falls because of our lack of aid to Phnom-Penh, our credibility will fall in the eyes of the world. But is our credibility really worth more to us than the people who are dying because we are supporting the corrupt government of President...
...Atlantic Monthly deserves special credit for its attention to the problem--without the sort of criticism it offers. Texas will remain a shadow of its potential, narrow and self-congratulatory in its ignorance of its own faults and weaknesses. Without criticism, in McMurtry's words, "that which is corrupt and trivial in a people's character will certainly flourish and it will flourish--as it is flourishing in Texas--at the expense of those elements of character which are genuine and valuable...
Since the 1970 coup which sent Prince Norodam Sihanouk into exile, Lon Nol has failed to win popular support and has conducted an administration almost universally recognized as openly corrupt. After more than four years of civil war, Cambodia is deeply scarred. The countryside, once a source of glowing reports from visitors, has been laid waste; Phnom Penh is under daily shelling; and civilians have become the victims of guns and poverty...
Without American support, the Cambodian civil war would have ended by now. Any American aid the Congress approves will only go to maintaining an unpopular, corrupt regime and forcing an inevitable loss of life. In fact, it is precisely the rigid and self-serving nature of the American policy which is responsible for the "bloodbath" now in progress in Phnom Penh. To be sure, the Khmer Rouge shelling of civilian sections of Phnom Penh is a reprehensible act, but the prospect of a "bloodbath" in Phnom Penh is more likely if Congress approves more aid than if not. The Khmer...
...United States is again the sole supporter of a corrupt, unpopular dictator in Asia, and again trying unsuccessful to influence the outcome of a civil war to suit its own interests. But even more striking parallels to Vietnam exist within the past two weeks, the President of the United States, his Secretary of State, and his Secretary of Defense have told the American people that we must not "lose" Cambodia; that if we do, the rest of Southeast Asia will "fall"; and that our allies will all panic if we cut off the aid. In yet another throwback...