This is getting so weird it's surreal...
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paddypackpacker
When America blasted the sh*t out of the country, sprayed it with agent orange and made it take 50 steps backwards in development. That's when!!! If it wasn't for the Vietnam war, what do you think Cambodia would be like today? Do you think it might have advanced a little bit more...so that they wouldn't be so dependent on the US?? NO???
I know Pol Pot destroyed the country as well...but America had a lot to do with it as well!!!
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gorshar
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<hr>When America blasted the sh*t out of the country, sprayed it with agent orange and made it take 50 steps backwards in development. <hr></blockquote>I don't recall any bombs carrying the message "Use US dollars or we drop more bombs"<blockquote>Quote
<hr>If it wasn't for the Vietnam war, what do you think Cambodia would be like today? <hr></blockquote> Some pretty good arguments have been made that suggest the KR were going to happen anyway and that the US bombing only accelerated the process.<blockquote>Quote
<hr>so that they wouldn't be so dependent on the US??<hr></blockquote>Hu Jintao is no doubt having a good laugh at you right now (among many others).
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foolsprogress
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<hr>When America blasted the sh*t out of the country, sprayed it with agent orange and made it take 50 steps backwards in development. That's when!!! If it wasn't for the Vietnam war, what do you think Cambodia would be like today? Do you think it might have advanced a little bit more...so that they wouldn't be so dependent on the US?? NO??? I know Pol Pot destroyed the country as well...but America had a lot to do with it as well!!!<hr></blockquote>
That simply doesn't make sense. Cambodia did not adopt the dollar during the Vietnam War or under the Khmer Rouge. It happened much later. And Cambodia is not that dependent of the US by comparison to some other countries. And like I said, hazy Khao San logic doesn't count. When exactly did the US force the Cambodian government to use USD and exactly how did they do it?
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<hr>If it wasn't for the Vietnam war, what do you think Cambodia would be like today?<hr></blockquote>
Exactly how do you mean? Do you mean, 'what would Cambodia be like if the US had no involvement in SEA after the UN agreement of 1954?' If that's your question, it's hard to say for sure, but I suspect it would be something of a colony of Vietnam (much more so than currently, that is) and dong would be the de facto currency.
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gorshar
While were at it, let's argue where would Cambodia be today if the French stayed away a century before? ATMs in Siem Reap would be spitting out Thai baht...
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foolsprogress
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<hr>While were at it, let's argue where would Cambodia be today if the French stayed away a century before? ATMs in Siem Reap would be spitting out Thai baht...<hr></blockquote>
Or even if they had stayed away after WWII. According to the 1941 Tokyo Convention, Siem Reap province belongs to Thailand, and it was in Thailand from 1941-1945. It is in large part because the French retrieved it for Cambodia as part of French Indochina after the end of WWII that it is in Cambodia today.
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paddypackpacker
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<hr>hazy Khao San logic<hr></blockquote>
What's this??
I mean that Cambodia's economy has suffered terribly because of the war, they had no chance to try and strengthen it. So they have no other choice but to use the US dollar!!!
It's the same now in Iraq. I know they were under a dictatorship as well, but the Americans have bombed that place well back into the last century, it's going to take them YEARS to recover from it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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