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Sydney Schanberg:
As they pondered their options in the White House, the men who decided to bomb and then to invade Cambodia concerned themselves with many things: great power conflicts and collapsing dominoes, looking tough and dangerous to the North Vietnamese, relieving pressure on the American troop withdrawal from the South. They had domestic concerns, as well, which helps explain why they kept the bombing of Cambodia a secret for as long as they could. And they may be assumed not to have ignored self-interest in their own careers. But they specifically were not concerned with, were the Cambodians themselves. Not the people, not the society, not the country. Except in the abstract as instruments of policy. Dith Pran and I tried to record and bring home here the concrete consequences of these decisions to real people - to human beings, the people left out of the Administration's plans, but, who paid the price and took the beating for them.
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As they pondered their options in the White House
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the men who decided to bomb and then to invade Cambodia
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concerned themselves with many things
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Great power conflicts and collapsing dominoes
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looking tough and dangerous to the North Vietnamese
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relieving pressure on the American troop withdrawal from the South
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They had domestic concerns as well
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which helps explain why they kept the bombing of Cambodia a secret
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And they may be assumed not to have ignored self interest
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in their own careers
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What they specifically were not concerned with
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were the Cambodians themselves
Clip duration: 49 seconds
Views: 92
Timestamp in movie: 01h 48m 01s
Uploaded: 25 November, 2022
Genres: drama, history, war
Summary: The real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
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00:31 Sydney
00:08 No more fighting No more war
00:15 I got a right to go wherever I like in this sad little...
00:10 Where you going Schanberg
00:30 Don't want to yell I want to be in a good mood
00:45 And now there's a rumor that the U S Air Force dropped...
00:18 Telex for you
00:18 What is this
00:17 Now if you look across the river
00:17 K R 's making a push for the airport road
00:13 Hello Sydney Good night Sydney
00:15 What pisses me off is this country has faults and strengths
00:09 Why doesn't he get his ass in here He's trying to...
00:22 Tell my wife I love her
00:17 All right Don't smile
00:05 Ankertill Brewer Ankertill Brewer
00:15 There are no American combat advisors in Cambodia
00:23 I'm full of fear Sydney
00:22 How do you respond to accusations that journalists
01:02 I never really gave him any choice