They stopped singing

Sitting at home in Tangier on a nice cool day, I just finished watching an A&E documentary on Pol Pot the Khamer Rouge leader who inspired the very powerful movie the "Killing Field".
During his rule of few years, Pol Pot and his army killed more than 2 million Cambodians and was perhaps one of the most ruthless totalitarians dictators during the last century joining Hitler, Stalin, Moe Tse-Tung, and Saddam as killers and murders of nations.
The interesting thing about Pol Pot is his formative years in France where he joined the Communist Party during its hay days, and where he thought he can restore the glorious past of Cambodia by destroying its present and starting over reclaiming eight centuries of glories. Pol Pot wanted to create a Utopia and engaged in massive and systemic killing fields.
The killing fields of Cambodia, like the killing fields of Iraq were triggered by a Republican president and his secretary of state. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger triggered the killing field with their decision to start bombing claimed Communist Vietnamese military basis on the border with Vietnam.
While Henry Kissinger was the father of the killing fields of Vietnam and Cambodia, it was quite a surprise to see Secretary George Schultz visiting and meeting with Pol Pot after he successfully killed over 2 million people. The same can be said of Ronald Reagan who sent his defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq to give Saddam Hussain the assurance of support few days after the world discovered that Saddam Hussien and his army gassed, killed and murdered tens of thousands of Kurds with arms and chemical weapons supplied by the western alliance of the "more than willing" including Germany, and the UK in addition to the US and France.
It seems wherever there is a dictator or a killer and a murder there is lurking in the background a Republican president and a secretary of state.
Supporting dictatorship and totalitarian rulers is the mark of Republican administrations and this includes supports of ruthless dictatorships like Suharto of Indonedia, Pinochet of Chile, Marcos of the Philippines, Samoza of Nicaragua, Noriega of Panama, the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussain of Iraq, Samuel Doe of Liberia, Moboto of Zaire, Ceausescu of Romania among others.
When Pol Pot was chased out of Nom Penh by the invading Vietnamese communists, he asked one of his closets friends how the people were doing in the country side, his friend told him" they stopped singing" and so it is true with tens of millions of people who stopped signing because the US Republican administrations supported killers and murderers.
While it is true that Republican administrations could never resist falling in love with a dictators, Stalin killed directly or indirectly more than 35 million n forced relocations of people within the former Soviet Union. Hitler killed more than 6 million Jews and god know how many more, Moe Tse-Tung of China with his Cultural Revolution killed more than 20 millions during the upheaval of those days. The sad thing is that for the most part, killer dictators hardly ever come up before any tribunal. The late Milosevic died while waiting for his trial to conclude. He was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Catholic Croats. African dictators who where always friend of the US and the West never stood trial for the murder of tens of millions of their own people. Samuel Doe, the sergeant who tied up the entire government of Liberia to palm trees on the beach and shot them in cold bloood was soon welcomed to the White House because he decided to restore diplomatic relationship with Israel and was awarded $ 500 millions in aids for his decision to break ranks with other African nations who cut diplomatic relationship with Israel after the 73 war. Killer dictatorship does not speak well of the US foreign policy and does not speak well of so many Republican administrations.