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...Vietnamese forces, backed by the Soviet Union, swept through the country, setting up a puppet government that both the U.S. and the U.N. refuse to recognize. In addition to the Khmer Rouge, whose 35,000 guerrillas are supported by China, the armed opposition to the current regime includes two non-Communist groups: one led by Son Sann, the other led in absentia by the exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk...
Nixon sees the three decades of American engagement in Indochina as a litany of "too little, too late." He wishes Truman had forced the French to bring about an independent, non-Communist state. That having failed, he believes President Eisenhower ought to have sent in air support to relieve the French at Dien Bien Phu; as Ike's Vice President, Nixon says, he counseled that "our choice was to help the French now or be faced with the necessity of taking over the burden." He condemns President Kennedy for the overthrow of Diem, which he argues led to political instability...
That tradition ended abruptly with Viet Nam. It is true that President Carter sent arms to the Afghan rebels and that Congress concurred. Congress has also gone along with economic aid to the non-Communist resistance in Cambodia. However, since the Clark Amendment of 1976 prohibiting aid to anti-Marxist fighters in Angola, Congress has refused to support war against indigenous Communist dictatorships, no matter how heavily supported by the Soviet Union or its proxies. President Reagan's program of CIA support for the Nicaraguan contras, who are not fighting foreign occupation, broke post-Viet Nam precedent. At first...
...Congress today there is almost no opposition to supporting Afghan and (non-Communist) Cambodian rebels. There is a consensus that resistance to invasion warrants support. But by what logic should support be denied to those fighting indigenous tyranny? It seems curious to decide the morality of a cause on the basis of the address of its chief oppressors...
...assault on the base, which had been held by forces loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian head of state, capped a triumphant Vietnamese dry-season offensive that has forced the Khmer resistance to reassess its six-year-old insurgency. In a series of strikes against strongholds of non-Communist and Communist resistance groups, the Vietnamese had pushed the guerrillas out of one border sanctuary after another. As the fighting raged, 230,000 Kampuchean refugees sought shelter across the frontier in Thailand. In ousting the resistance from its redoubts, the Vietnamese also cut supply lines that link Thailand with...