How could have the Cambodian Genocide been prevented ?

If the United States Air Force, by the order of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, had not dropped 2,756,941 tons of bombs (and illegally, I might add - the U.S. never declared war on Cambodia - Cambodia never declared war on or bombed the U.S.), then it is very possible that much fewer Cambodians would have died, and as a result flocked to the Khmer Rouge, and the Cambodian Genocide may never have occurred.

The USA could have prevented the genocide in Cambodia by not bombing Cambodia and killing hundreds of thousands of Cambodians. The West could have and should have done more to prevent the USA from fighting a war of aggression against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. "Containment" my foot, what the Americans did in South East Asia was tantamount to genocide.

After every seizure of power by Communist insurgents in the twentieth-century there was a blood bath starting with Russia in 1917. What happened in Cambodia was repeated in Vietnam (Body Count: 1,670,000 )and Laos (Body Count: 56,000, plus an unknown number of Hmong from "yellow rain") at the same time. During the ten years the US withdrew from the Cold War in the 70s it happened in Ethiopia (Body Count: 1,343,610), Mozambique (Body Count: 700,000), People's Republic of Angola (Body Count: 125,000), and Yemen (Body Count: 1,000) to. It was predictable, even inevitable. One of the primary reasons the United States pursued its long term policy of Containment was to try and prevent these horrendous acts of brutality. IT WAS THE REASON I WENT TO VIETNAM. The only way this massacre could have been prevented was to prevent the Khmer Rough from taking power in the first place. Communist apologists try to shift blame to the United States, but they know who is really responsible.

the assassination of pol pot could have prevented it

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/pot.html

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/...