paratrooper wow... ok i get it now... so we needed to war with vietnam to keep cambodia and laos from going communist! yeah, that makes sense! it was well worth the loss of life then, if only our men could have died so pol pot could have been avoided, it all would have been worth it! great logic bro. the point was to keep it from spreading to india and australia, that didn't even come close to happening. btw, it was vietnam that rolled on the khmer rouge to put an end to them. the country we killed a million people of were the heroes in that situation. the boogie man of communism never came to pass. it was an unbelievable misjudgment by the people of that time.