Cambodia may have declared its neutrality , but since clearly it held up to 40 thousand enemy troops, plus infrastructure and engaged in cross border raids and offensives , then that statement had been over taken by events.
As pancho found himself a legitmate target of hot pursuit, mexico did the right thing (politically speaking) by shutting up and not escalating against a larger foe.
If you want to claim that the bombing and subsequent invasion of Cambodia was wrong go ahead, but they were a legimate target because they could not or would not police their own borders , some where after reading back on your posts in this thread i dont see any mention of Vietnams incursions on Cambodias neutrality , do they not count.
That would be the part where prince shianouk declared cambodias neutrality and the viets were cool with that as long as they got to keep forces in place, soon as new management came in and told em to skedaddle, then the cambodians had come down off the fence and requested US milaid.
That totally doesn’t count - MASH was “obviously”, functionally speaking, a Vietnam show.
And no, I never really liked it. And regardless, it didn’t have much to say about my dad’s experience on a destroyer getting fired on in a “peace action”. Nothing I’ve seen to date in a life of admittedly casual war movie viewing has.
Cambodia was chump change as far as bombing went. Laos and even South Vietnam itself was bombed by the US more than Cambodia was. In this thread, I posted this:
“Incidentally, I find it an interesting note of historical irony that of the 6.3 million tons of bombs rained down on Indochina during the war, it was South Vietnam that bore the brunt, at 3.9 million tons! This from The Ravens: Pilots of the Secret War of Laos, by Christopher Robbins. (Laos was second at 1.6 million tons. By contrast, Germany took 1.36 million tons in World War II.)”
As for your later question of an apology, don’t make me laugh. But there are private organizations of ex-veterans who have returned to Indochina; these act as NGOs.
Speaking of the bombings in Laos, I’ve been told that Thais living along the Mekong River back during the war would line the river to watch when it came close. It was considered high entertainment, a first-class fireworks show.
If you’re interested in Cambodia, I liked the book Sideshow, by William Shawcross.