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March 3, 2009
Communists? All nuts. All.
Here's an amazing story of someone with a Ph.D. who decided that Kampuchea was a good idea - and someone shot him in Phnom Penh for his troubles. No, really - this is a depressingly excellent example of why advanced degrees mean very little about an ability to understand the world. You know, the real, phenomenal world. Here's a lovely example of the article's subject and his inability to see the world:
Caldwell was supportive of both the Vietnamese and Cambodian regimes and believed that the Cambodian-Vietnamese conflict was 'detrimental to the broader interests of Third World liberation struggles.'
I mean support 3rd world liberation struggles all you want (me, I don't - the record runs against them lately), but don't delude yourself that neighboring peasant reigmes will get along.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 3, 2009 10:12 PM