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[womzilla]

Rutherford Bush is fond of claiming that the US is fighting a "worldwide war on terror". Long Beach, California, is, apparently, not a part of the world.

The Strip-Mall Revolutionaries
By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK (NY Times Magazine, 21 March 2004)

Traditionally, militant groups huddle in caves in the mountains, or they blindfold journalists and drive them in circles before depositing them at their leader's jungle hideout. The Cambodian Freedom Fighters (C.F.F.), a militant group dedicated to the overthrow of Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia, on the other hand, meets each Saturday at 6 p.m. in an accountant's office in a strip mall in Long Beach, Calif. When I called Yasith Chhun, the group's leader, he didn't hesitate to invite me to the next meeting.

"You can't miss our headquarters," he said. "It's right next to the bridal shop."

The CFF engineered a coup attempt in Phnom Penn in 2000 which left eight people dead. Chhun is a wanted criminal in Cambodia. But the US is doing nothing about him, while at the same time applying diplomatic pressure on Cambodia for them to help in the fight against terrorists-in-turbans.

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[redbird]

I keep trying to come up with something either useful or witty to say about this, and run ashore on the strong suspicion that the US has no policy towards Cambodia, and hasn't since, oh, King Sihanouk's first reign.

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

AFAIK they don't have large quanties of oil, and aren't within bomb-lobbing distance of us, so they don't care.

For extra credit: Compare and contrast Viet Nam, Cuba, and Albania.