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.