Kissinger the Exterminator

[doktor at primenet.com]

In an otherwise sensible critique of Henry the K., Steelhead remarks:

>And still you are left the with ignoble fact that Henry Kissinger gave the
>green light for the biggest genocidal purge since World War II--the
>Indonesian putsch into East Timor (that I feel certain will be at least
>hinted at in M&D) in which over a third of the population was
>systematically exterminated in order for American oil and mining companies
>to secure title to the oceans of wealth buried beneath the Timor Gap.

Um...not to quibble over a few hundred thousand lives here or there, but
doesn't the Cambodian horrorshow orchestrated by Pol Pot, in which between
one million and three million were killed, take those dubious honors?  And
that, too, can indirectly be laid at Kissinger's feet, seeing as how the
U.S. destabilized the Sianhouk regime, encouraged the Lon Nol coup, and, by
its bombing inside the Cambodian border, sent the Khmer Rouge marching
deeper toward Phnom Penh?

--Jimmy

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