McGrath of Harlow:

"We SHOULD have gone in when he started to gas the Kurds" - but the US was already supporting Saddam to the hilt at the time he did that. And within a few months after that it was stepping up assistance to his regime. "

I AGREE, and I think, IMO, that the US was WRONG. Where have I indicated otherwise???????????? But please blame the administration in power at the time, NOT ME, for this failure to act

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"Blaming opponents of the war for Pol Pot is rich. In effect it was the US government who were responsible for him coming to power - and it did its best to keep him in power too when the Vietnamese invaded to stop the killing, for which they were roundly punished by crippling sanctions.


And I think the US was WRONG. But given the political climate in this country, due to the anti-war spirit at the time, the US COULD NOT have gone in to stop it, or done any intervention in the region.
If we had stayed in SE asia, there would (probably) been no such mass slaughter. Or are you all arguing that , if the US had still been in SE Asia, we would have alloweed it? THAT might be a valid point.

But please stop saying that my logic is invalid because you do not like the conclusion.