georgephillip
Diamond Member
"Nixon was facing growing congressional opposition to his Indochina policy. A joint US–South Vietnam ground invasion of Cambodia in May and June of 1970 had failed to root out Vietnamese Communists, and Nixon now wanted to covertly escalate the air attacks, which were aimed at destroying the mobile headquarters of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army (vc/nva) in the Cambodian jungle.SO ? the US did things----which SOMEHOW---but not be design led to the empowerment of POL POT------ in fact the US and England ----ALSO did things----but NOT BY DESIGN that led to the empowerment of Adolf abu ali Hitler, too
how does that make Kissinger "responsible" for genocide in Cambodia --------btw----it also does not make the US responsible for the genocide comitted by Adolf Hitler
"After telling Kissinger that the US Air Force was being unimaginative, Nixon demanded more bombing, deeper into the country: 'They have got to go in there and I mean really go in . . . I want everything that can fly to go in there and crack the hell out of them. There is no limitation on mileage and there is no limitation on budget. Is that clear?'
"Kissinger knew that this order ignored Nixon’s promise to Congress that US planes would remain within thirty kilometres of the Vietnamese border, his own assurances to the public that bombing would not take place within a kilometre of any village, and military assessments stating that air strikes were like poking a beehive with a stick."
Nixon and Kissinger were responsible for hundreds of thousands of maimed and murdered Cambodians along with creating millions of refugees anxious to destroy their own government.
I'm unaware of any similar air actions leading to Hitler's rise, are you?
Bombs Over Cambodia: New Light on US Air War :: JapanFocus