Some people say that Iraq was a second Veitnam for us. I agree with this is some ways, but as at stands now we achieved in the end what we wanted to do, just not nearly as well or as quickly as we wanted. Both wars however cause serious regional upheaval.
Our war in Vietnam spilled over into Cambodia. This lead to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and what I consider the worst genoside in history. Over 3 million people were purged. They targeted the educated 1st, but they did not stop there. They turned at one point to killing people who wore glasses. I visited the killing fields in Phnom Penh where when it rains the remains of bones and clothing appear. There is still blood on a tree where the killed babies by bashing their heads against the tree.
Now to Syria. The major difference is most of the 250,000 killed were not "purged" by was the result of hostile action. We have seen chemical weapons used. There has not been a large scale genocide, but we really dont know for sure what ISIS is doing in their controlled territories.
You may wonder how we let such a thing happen in the 1970s in Cambodia. The public had not desire to revisit that part of the world so shortly after an unpopular war. It actually took Vietnam to remove the Khmer Rouge from power, the enemy. We just sat and watched as it happened. Sounds alot like Syria.
psn- tokila
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