The sorry recitation of internal devastation. corruption. incompetence. disassociation of people from government. mystic militarism. the growth of indigenous revolutionary forces and so on is all to familiar to anyone who has followed the situation in Southeast Asia over the years. Regrettably. the Cambodian situation is one In which we permitted our involvementagain as we did in Vietnam. as we did in Laosto rise from the wetting of a toe up to the level of our necks. Indeed. we played the major part through military aid programs. air support and B52 bombing in converting what was a tolerable. productive and certainly peaceful existence for ordinary Cambodians into a life of aimless refugees among the spreading ruins of their towns and villages. All that has been spared. it would seem. is the corruption in the capital of Phom Penh. So far as I can see.
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