How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
Re: How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
To be fair hitting anything precisely with a B52 probably wasn't on the 'to do' list - no cruise missiles back in those days; and even in Iraq I think there was plenty of 'collateral damage'.Duncan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:09 am http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/nod ... mb6573.JPG
Some of those bomb sites look a bit far from the Vietnam / Cambodian border .
Also would be interested to see that map year on year as by '73 the Khmer Rouge uprising was in full swing & I think the Americans decided that all communists were fair game, not just Vietnamese. But you could be right, if those locations are showing in years earlier than 1973, then I think you can't even cite a bit of a dodgy B52 bombsight given how far from the border they extend.
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Re: How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
Good link
Document 3: Kissinger and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., 9 December 1970, 8:50 p.m.
Source: Nixon Presidential Materials Project, Henry A. Kissinger Telephone Conversations Transcripts, Home File, Box 29, File 2, 106-10
A few minutes later after receiving Nixon's call on Cambodia, Kissinger telephoned his military assistant Alexander Haig about the orders from "our friend." After he described Nixon's instructions for a "massive bombing campaign" involving "anything that flys [or] anything that moves", the notetaker apparently heard Haig "laughing." Both Haig and Kissinger knew that what Nixon had ordered was logistically and politically impossible so they translated it into a plan for massive bombing in a particular district (not identifiable because the text is incomplete). These two phone calls illustrate an important feature of the Nixon-Kissinger relationship: while Nixon would, from time to time, make preposterous suggestions (no doubt depending on his mood), Kissinger would later decide whether there was a rational kernel in what Nixon had said and whether or how to follow up on it.
Document 3: Kissinger and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., 9 December 1970, 8:50 p.m.
Source: Nixon Presidential Materials Project, Henry A. Kissinger Telephone Conversations Transcripts, Home File, Box 29, File 2, 106-10
A few minutes later after receiving Nixon's call on Cambodia, Kissinger telephoned his military assistant Alexander Haig about the orders from "our friend." After he described Nixon's instructions for a "massive bombing campaign" involving "anything that flys [or] anything that moves", the notetaker apparently heard Haig "laughing." Both Haig and Kissinger knew that what Nixon had ordered was logistically and politically impossible so they translated it into a plan for massive bombing in a particular district (not identifiable because the text is incomplete). These two phone calls illustrate an important feature of the Nixon-Kissinger relationship: while Nixon would, from time to time, make preposterous suggestions (no doubt depending on his mood), Kissinger would later decide whether there was a rational kernel in what Nixon had said and whether or how to follow up on it.
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Re: How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
Spigzy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:10 pmTo be fair hitting anything precisely with a B52 probably wasn't on the 'to do' list - no cruise missiles back in those days; and even in Iraq I think there was plenty of 'collateral damage'.Duncan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:09 am http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/nod ... mb6573.JPG
Some of those bomb sites look a bit far from the Vietnam / Cambodian border .
Also would be interested to see that map year on year as by '73 the Khmer Rouge uprising was in full swing & I think the Americans decided that all communists were fair game, not just Vietnamese. But you could be right, if those locations are showing in years earlier than 1973, then I think you can't even cite a bit of a dodgy B52 bombsight given how far from the border they extend.
I am sure I have seen that bombing map of Cambodia in a year by year form , but I cannot find it now.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Re: How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
Found one ... seems to commence in Cambodia in 1971 ... cheeky!
[edit: source article: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/produc ... story-map/]
[edit: source article: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/produc ... story-map/]
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Re: How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
Nixon got the US out of Viet Nam and was subsequently knee-capped by the deep state.
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Re: How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
Our favorite bogey, the "deep state"sigmoid wrote:Nixon got the US out of Viet Nam and was subsequently knee-capped by the deep state.
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