in their shoes. Suppose China wants to install a puppet regime but 90% of the US population opposes. So China kills millions of us and they get a few American collaborators to go along. But we repel them successfully. What would you do to the collaborators after you've buried your children, brothers, and sisters, and you watch as people continue to die from the chemical weapons and unexploded munitions after the war was over (as they do in Vietnam today)? For me it would take a lot of restraint to merely offer re-education. I would want to do worse. I don't know for certain, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Zinn would have predicted the Khmer Rouge takeover. We carpet bombed Cambodia for years, driving them to starvation and desperation. When you do that you tend to create extremist reactions, like what occurred with the Khmer. It wasn't unlike Hitler's rise to power subsequent to the punishment Germany endured following WWI. The intellectually honest pacifist admits that the crimes of the North were far worse? On what planet? We bombed Laos in the following manner: The equivalent of one B-52 load every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. Why? What had they done to us? More bombs than dropped during the entirety of WWII by both sides, including the nuclear blasts. JFK ordered tens of thousands of bombing runs in South Vietnam (that wonderful place where Caplan says the lucky Northerners fled) in 1962. What