Hun Sens Deadline...

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SmartAston Martin wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:50 pm
You'd think, if you want to run a post-war Third World country, you'd have a little beef supporting you?
Yeah right. He's only been at it for 30 odd years.


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To John B.,

Again, I feel uncertainty (fear) impedes real (Western) understanding of this long-serving head of state.

They fear he ticks all the marks of a ruthless mob boss: dark, a bit dangerous, outspoken contempt, foreign, former military, oftentimes dressed "unfashionably", the list goes on. Missing opponents and no one says a word. Not a peep. Not a single spilled bean. Each time. Silence.

I think the silence may be not so much fear as support. Some people I'm sure didn't care for that dissenting voice.

When the big guy makes a point though, he makes you grin after he asks you to be indignant about some wrong, and you end up saying, "You know, he's kind of right."

You perk up and listen harder, and he explains another wrong unfolding, its dangers, its consequences, and what must be done about it.

His "down to earth" manner is reassuring to a lot of Cambodians, as simple as they are. He's got answers and reasons and he's sharing them with them.

I see villagers tune into the big man, at first skeptically, then one by one each of them nods and sort of relaxes. I can almost see their thought - "Someone is thinking for us. Someone is clearing the gullies, pumping water to our dry crops, warning us of societal dangers."

He projects a caring, strong authority figure.

Kind of hard to explain him to voters back home, though. He makes for easy pickin's by looks alone.

EDITS: So many little typos, like scattered grains of rice, so difficult to see at first ...
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Username Taken wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:22 pm
SmartAston Martin wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:50 pm
You'd think, if you want to run a post-war Third World country, you'd have a little beef supporting you?
Yeah right. He's only been at it for 30 odd years.


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Even then, don't come knocking...Not for ANY reason.
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SmartAston Martin wrote:
I think the silence may be not so much fear as support. Some people I'm sure didn't care for that dissenting voice.
That's because like him or not, he represents stability in the kingdom and general region.

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John Bingham wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:16 pm
SmartAston Martin wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:25 pm
Trying to break down complex political topics with simple speech and using parallels on down home life for the masses of Cambodia? Kinda simplified. Like he's speaking to country farmers living in a wooden stilt house with a little TV and big rabbit ear antennas?

That has always been his skill, I'm amazed it took so long for some of you to notice.
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Apologies Mr Bingham. Not directed at you. I don't believe it is expedient for foreigners to make pointed statements on local politics of sprout off like Mr SAM.

The local population has the ability to track and locate posters and if selected for accommodation at Prey Sar or other location as necessary there is f++k all anyone can do to help.
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how do you think they ID all those Chinese deportees? there is a very sophisticated and world class surveillance unit.
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Cambodians deserve HE.
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indeed. just as Australians deserve their PM and fnq has de lacies, entchs and katters.
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SmartAston Martin wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:25 pmTo average Westerners, he is definitely not your media-polished Trudeau, Trump, or Macron.
No ‘average westerner’ considers Trump media-polished, unless you include the lunatic asylum demographic.

And given what how the western media has been behaving for the last 5 years or more, I'd prefer anyone to somebody they praise.

One has to ask, if the west is so fantastic, why are its supporters not all living there?
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