The epitaph for the U.S. involvement in Indochina had been given earlier that month before the fall of Phnom Penh in neighboring Cambodia. Just days before his execution at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian statesman Sirak Mitak penned a final note to the U.S. ambassador refusing his offer of evacuation."America's Bitter End in Vietnam." By Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr., HistoryNet.com (emphasis added), originally published in Vietnam magazine, April 1995 <-- Neo-neocon.
"I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty....You leave and my wish is that you and your country will find happiness under the sky.
"But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we all are born and must die one day. I have only committed this mistake in believing in you, the Americans."
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November 6, 2006
What abandoning an ally means in practice.
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If you Americans ever do something like that again, the wrath of God shall befall this nation.
I hope that we will not but I do not think that Americans have much of a stomach for a hard fight anymore. Some do, but too many others have have their earings and their Nintendo Play Stations.
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