During the Vietnam War, our military and political leaders assured the American public that the only way to defeat the Vietcong was to cut off their supply lines running through Cambodia.  Even before President Nixon’s televised address where he sought to justify a military incursion into the “Parrot’s Beak” area of Cambodia, the Secret Forces, the CIA directly and through its privately owned airline, Air America, was already conducting covert operations on a massive scale.  Since Cambodia cannot secure its own borders, so went the logic, we have to do it for them, and in the process save Cambodia, or so the logic went. Read the rest of this entry »