Bangkok Post : From Cambodia to Iraq: The USA and International Law, by Ben Kiernan. Ben Kiernan, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, is author of "The Pol Pot Regime" (2nd edition, 2002) and co-editor of "The Specter of Genocide" (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Tuning in to National Public Radio to hear a reporter describe the US "incursion into Iraq," I was immediately sent back to 1970. Nixon was talking on television about Cambodia, asserting: "This is not an invasion, it is an incursion." It was an invasion, and what followed was worse.
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