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Originally Posted by steve@thaib
I'm possibly in the wrong frame of mind, but Americans bigging up Cambodia is, in my humble opinion, only going to get some headlines in America and is akin to saying what a nice guy that was who you just shanked. The rest of us may well be aware just why the place is quite so smashed up and why the opportunity to loot such important temples arose in the first place:
'Between 1965 and 1973 the US dropped almost a third more ordnance (2.8 million tonnes) on Cambodia, a country the size of Oklahoma, than the allies dropped in the whole of WW2 (2million tonnes) including the atomic bombs which struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Cambodia is thought to be the most heavily bombed country in history.'
I'm sure that the 'warrior class' will appreciate the opportunity to rebut the numbers, but the reason that Cambodia is fcuked is that America fcuked it. Pardon me for not being too impressed if the Wall Street Journal is allowing us free access to a sappy tourist article that fails to address recent history so spectacularly.
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so because of past history, all of us Americans are not allowed to appreciate Cambodia or anything about it because of something our governement did when some of us where babies?
that is a ridiculous statement
then i guess half you Brits cant travel almost anywhere in the world becuase you colonized half of it
you are a very bright guy, Steve, but that was just a ludicrous statement