Lon Nol

I wish them well, but remember the exultation on the Left when the corrupt Lon Nol goverment was overthrown and replaced by a patriotic Communist party.

Tunisia's Jasmine revolution: A flower that could be crushed | Editorial 2011

Dispatched to Phnom Penh, Haig exceeded Nixon's instructions and told Lon Nol that the U.S. would continue to fight in Cambodia even after Congress had expressly forbidden further American incursions there and Nixon had agreed to that restriction.

Tom Shachtman: Alexander Haig's Dark Side 2010

Dispatched to Phnom Penh, Haig exceeded Nixon's instructions and told Lon Nol that the U.S. would continue to fight in Cambodia even after Congress had expressly forbidden further American incursions there and Nixon had agreed to that restriction.

Alexander Haig's Dark Side Tom Shachtman 2010

"The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns," said then-congressman, now senator, Chris Dodd, by way of making the case against the Ford administration's bid to extend military assistance to the pro-American government of Lon Nol.

From WikiLeaks to the Killing Fields 2010

The fundamental reason for this is explained in a report by Tad Szulc in The New York Times, May 21, summarizing the views of "senior officials" of the American Government: "… the Lon Nol regime will need assistance to deal with guerrilla and subversive activities… in some ways the situation developing in Cambodia [is] beginning to resemble South Vietnam in 1960, when the Vietcong began their rebellion against the Saigon regime."

Oceanside 2009

And it took years before he allowed that yes, possibly Lon Nol and his minions might have overreacted a bit. pinkiebrown

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

General Do Cao Tri, Saigon commander in the "Parrot's Beak" area, explained the difficulty of determining whether the Cambodians in the villages being occupied "are for Sihanouk, Lon Nol or the Vietcong."

Oceanside 2009

It is a reasonable guess that the Saigon army, unable to control any substantial territory in South Vietnam without massive American support, will fare no better in its efforts to prop up the Lon Nol government.

Oceanside 2009

By 1975, the U.S. could no longer prevent the overtaking of the Lon Nol regime by the insurgency.

Iran: Learning the Lessons of Cambodia and Iraq 2008

Moreover, if the ship had been carrying weapons for Lon Nol, nothing would have been gained by making the ship the center of a high-profile charade.

Cambodia Book Reviews: The Eagle Mutiny 2008