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...Bush Administration is upping the ante. In addition to pulling out of Cambodia, Viet Nam must contribute to what Washington calls a comprehensive settlement of the civil war the departing occupiers leave behind. By the Administration's definition, that requires the inclusion of the murderous Khmer Rouge in a coalition, along with two non-Communist Cambodian factions and the current Vietnamese-backed rulers in Phnom Penh...
Most of the world condemned the Vietnamese attack on Cambodia in 1978 as an act of aggression. But whatever Hanoi's predatory motives, the invasion had one positive consequence: it ended the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge and drove them into the jungle. There they lurk today, hoping to return to power in the new round of fighting that has become almost inevitable since an international peace conference broke down in Paris in August...
Washington's tacit backing of the Khmer Rouge may have contributed as much to the diplomatic impasse as did Hanoi's support of its stubborn Cambodian clients. That sad symmetry is beginning to look like the latest blight on America's dismal record in Southeast Asia -- and the Bush Administration's first major foreign policy debacle...
Some Cambodians said they welcomed the withdrawal, while others said they feared the Khmer Rouge, which has been on the offensive as the Vietnamese withdraw...
...Monday, Khmer Rouge radio claimed its forces had captured "a major strategic position" on the road between the key towns of Battambang and Pailin in western Cambodia...