I know the focus is on New Orleans these days, yet we cannot forget that we are still fighting two wars. I read an article yesterday in the Huffington Post saying that the U.N. Ambassador to Iraq is proclaiming that invasion of Syria is eminent. I couldn’t help but feel reminded of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam conflict. I posted the following response, and then reposted here on Soapblox with hyperlinks (since Huffington’s doesn’t allow them), so that you all can be properly informed if you choose to be. I think it was a valuable lesson in our history that no one ever talks about, considering it was such a tremendous failure.

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An invasion of any other countries in the region is folly, and sounds an awful lot like the Cambodian campaign Nixon waged during the Vietnam conflict. The United States has learned this first hand in this case. The end result was a ravaged and devastated nation, and 1.7 million Cambodians killed.

In the case of Cambodia, American intelligence believed that insurgents were invading the country from the north along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which dips into Laos and finishes along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border. Nixon began …