Thursday
Feb262009
Bombing "Sanctuaries", Now and Then: Mr Henry Kissinger
Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 13:25
Mr Henry Kissinger, The Washington Post, 26 February 2009:
Pakistan's leaders must face the fact that continued toleration of the sanctuaries -- or continued impotence with respect to them -- will draw their country ever deeper into an international maelstrom.
Mr Henry Kissinger, interview with Die Zeit, Summer 1976:
The Walrus, 26 February 2009:
Pakistan's leaders must face the fact that continued toleration of the sanctuaries -- or continued impotence with respect to them -- will draw their country ever deeper into an international maelstrom.
Mr Henry Kissinger, interview with Die Zeit, Summer 1976:
The fact is that we were bombing North Vietnamese troops that had invaded Cambodia, that were killing many Americans from these sanctuaries, and we were doing it with the acquiescence of the Cambodian government, which never once protested against it, and which, indeed, encouraged us to do it. I may have a lack of imagination, but I fail to see the moral issue involved and why Cambodian neutrality should apply to only one country.
The Walrus, 26 February 2009:
Civilian casualties in Cambodia drove an enraged populace into the arms of an insurgency that had enjoyed relatively little support until the bombing began, setting in motion the expansion of the Vietnam War deeper into Cambodia, a coup d’état in 1970, the rapid rise of the Khmer Rouge, and ultimately the Cambodian genocide.
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