U.S. Policy on Cambodia
William Pfaff (“National Murder, In Cold Blood,” Commentary, July 16) must have had his head in the sand while in Southeast Asia. I served in Vietnam on the Cambodian border from mid-1968 through mid-1970. Before, during and after that period the North Vietnamese Army staged massive attacks from inside Cambodia against U.S. and Vietnamese troops and civilian population centers. The NVA forces received the bulk of their war materiel through the port of Sihanoukville with the full approval and cooperation of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Thousands of American casualties resulted from Sihanouk’s assistance to the NVA. The May, 1970, incursion into Cambodia by U.S. and Vietnamese forces saved countless allied lives.
MALCOLM K. KALP
Culver City
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