For 10 years. because of the pain of our Vietnam experience. we have made believe that the region did not exist. But the pain has continued. A human flood of refugees. the slaughter of untold millions of people in Cambudia and then a brutal invasion by the Vietnamese. not an invasion. you understand. of merely crossing borders. occupying villages. but the assimilation of a people and the destruction of the Cambodian culture. Today each of us will look at this debate and the question of the future of Cambodia in very personal terms. for it has touched all of us personally in our careers. either as Members of this institution or as those who sought to come here. First. from the perspective of those of us who opposed the war in Vietnam in all of its phases. we opposed it because America stood alone. because some of us believed that it was a domestic conflict.
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