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Thread #104031 Message #2126018
Posted By: GUEST,PMB
15-Aug-07 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Avert The Draft
Subject: RE: BS: Avert The Draft
That's quite right John. No sooner had the Americans withdrawn, than the slaughter began in Cambodia. Though Laos and Vietnam were relatively quick to settle down, after the inevitable score- settling with the unlucky losers who couldn't get away.
The same is likely to happen when the Allies withdraw from Iraq. Some areas will be dreadful- others relatively smooth in transition. It would have been easier had the withdrawal been some years ago, and easier still if the invasion had never happened.
It's worth reflecting that the Cambodian situation was (probably) a direct result of American intervention- the overthrow of Sianoukh was engineered by the US, and it was this that ultimately brought Pol Pot to power. Deja vu?