Comment preview: Pol Pot was supported because he was a US/UK/China backed proxy against a fearful but unfounded idea that Vietnam wanted to conquer and turn Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia/Thailand into it's own version of a united Socialist bloc. Khmer Rouge in power had already p ....

Comment preview: In the 1970s a crazy guy named Pol Pot was the leader of a "communist" paramilitary regime called the Khmer Rouge, which "liberated" Phnom Penh and then enforced on the country several years of forced agrarianism while slaughtering pretty much anybody who ....

Comment preview: This is a story from my parents. My mother and father were living in Cambodia at the time where the khmer rouge took place. Pretty much like a holocaust of Cambodia. My mother never really spoke of things that happened when I learned more about it growing ....

Comment preview: /u/Cenodoxus Quote For the lazy: I was the person getting [alternately savaged and supported](http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/spthv/noam_chomsky_on_americas_declining_empire_occupy/c4g10ck) in a recent /r/politics thread, so I suppose it's only f ....

Comment preview: I was the person getting [alternately savaged and supported](http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/spthv/noam_chomsky_on_americas_declining_empire_occupy/c4g10ck) in a recent /r/politics thread, so I suppose it's only fair to weigh in on why I think it ....

Comment preview: The most amazing comment I've seen on the [site](http://www.chinasmack.com/2013/pictures/ground-collapses-near-guangzhou-metro-construction-site.html). Posted in another one of their articles but it's somewhat relevant to "China hates other countries for X ....