The four surviving top leaders of the Khmer Rouge stand trial in Cambodia for genocide, crimes against humanity, murder, and other offenses. It should have been the trial of the century--the 20th century. As I write @ FrontPageMag, the bizarre decades-too-late court case conducted by the UN and Cambodia is in a sick sense a fitting coda for the most bizarre period in human history.

Have you ever heard any outrage from the Left regarding that era in Cambodia? Didn't think so.

Maybe because Pol Pot was an academic and really just knew better than everyboby else. And what does mass murder matter to the enlightened?

Hey asdf,

You realize that the CIA, Department of State, and Cambodia itself recognizes that the only reason Pol Pot was able to seize control was because of the illegal bombing campaign wherein more bombs were dropped in that country than all the bombs dropped during WW2, right? Or are you content spouting off your bulls#%$ fact-free opinions and turning a humanitarian tragedy into a jingoistic, retarded, right-wing sloganeering exercise used to disgustingly and dishonorably exploit death for political gain?

I just reread your retarded comment, and you don't even understand who Pol Pot or what the Khmer Rouge was. They were anti-academic and anti-intellectual, you total idiot. What makes you think that you're entitled to run your mouth or move your fingers to type about something that you are completely ignorant of? Seriously, what is wrong with you Tea-GOP scum?

On Pol Pot

As a result of failing his exams in three successive years, he was forced to return to Cambodia in January 1953.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_pot#Paris

On the Khmer Rouge

Money was abolished, books were burned, teachers, merchants, and almost the entire intellectual elite of the country were murdered, to make the agricultural communism, as Pol Pot envisioned it, a reality. The planned relocation to the countryside resulted in the complete halt of almost all economic activity: even schools and hospitals were closed, as well as banks, and industrial and service companies.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_rouge

Your pathetic ignorance and idiocy would be funny, if it wasn't the mentality and reason why this country is going down the drain.

ASDF, it wasn't that Pol Pot was an academic, but rather that he was a Communist (albeit not the most educated). And that's why people like Chomsky were apologists for his rule. However, he did follow the same path as those "academics" in the Soviet Union, just on a faster scale.

PMA:

"What makes you think that you're entitled to run your mouth or move your fingers to type about something that you are completely ignorant of?"

Whether ASDF is ignorant of the facts or not (and I think you're being very loose with the term yourself), he's entitled b/c of free speech. Just like you're entitled to make your retarded "Tea-bagger" comments.

Keep reading your Chomsky...bungler that he is.

:)

And no, ASDF, I've never heard any outrage from the left on regarding that era in Cambodia, except to try and shift ALL the blame to America.

Yes, I did err on Pol Pot and the untrue fact that he was an academic. Was thinking of somebody else.

But I think PMA would have been safe in Pol Pot’s Cambodia as they were “anti-academic and anti-intellectual”.

I haven’t heard a person use the word retarded so much since the last 12 year old I talked to.

Exactly NR - it's always America's fault somehow, isn't it? And it's just like our agencies to turn the blame on us for another murderous Communist regime destroying a country, right?

Absurd.

Although, I'm sure that the Bush family were somehow complicit as well.