Great Movie, Even with it's NY Times Slant

Rating: Null/10 (18 August 2004)

This was one of the all time great movies. My main peeve however, was the typical NY Times slant on the whole thing. Schanberg's leftist ranting made no sense in the long run. The domino theory was proved by these events, not disproved. If the US had stayed and supported South Vietnam and Cambodia, those tragedies would be avoided, ideas foreign to a leftist ranter like Schanberg. Bombing doesn't cause normal folks to turn into blood thirsty Communist tyrants. Did the people of London, Berlin, Tokyo or Malta massacre each other after WWll? The Khmer Rouge were merely following the well worn path of Communist tyranny and totalitarianism ala Stalin, Mao and Sung, but without the PR job that Ho and Fidel had! It was a real sad movie that did show the depth of evil that the Communists are capable of, the turning of the kids into Communist murderbots who had people killed because they wore glasses or had soft hands. The starvation and impoverishment of everyone except the ruling cadres should be a powerful antidote to the parasites who whine about the inequalities of capitalism. Unfortunately, the Khmer Rouge still persists today in a muted form, thanks to the mindless UN fools.