John From Pol POt to ISIS your puerile ink never dries. If there were an award for unmitigated crap you would win it!

One notes you are and were strangely silent when Putin invaded his small satellite neighbor Georgia, or when he invaded Afghanistan, or when his minions took over the Crimea, by force, and strangely silent when a passenger jet was shot from Ukraian skies with a Russian buk missile!

Pol Pot needed no excuse, he was just a vicious cold blooded killer who thankfully rots in hell where those monsters eventually go, as their deserved reward!

And ISIS, is even more brutal and bloodthirsty and would be so if there were no U.S.A. Blair or Bush to blame!

These folk you try to defend/excuse attack unarmed defenceless women, children and cripples in wheelchairs! Your sort of warrior hero obviously!

All they need to do more of the same is sh!t stirrers like you fomenting rabid extremism with an walkley award for B.S. shoveled by the shipload!

Others might be firing the kalashnikovs, but sure as the sun rises in the east you are loading these weapons of death!

fortunately only intellectually challenged morons will ever be swayed by this crap!
Rhrosty.

Pilger packs the Pol Pot Putinesque pox perfectly.

"From Pol Pot to ISIS: the blood never dried."

Yes, indeed, Bilger is right for once: Utopias and dictatorships eventually have to resort to brutal violence to enforce their crazy ideals, and almost always, given time, turn inwards and resort to butchering their own supporters.

Russia for instance: the Bolsheviks lasted, what ? a few weeks before they were attacking some of the most passionate Communists, e.g. the Kronstadt soldiers and sailors, then other groups, before they scapegoated all the usual suspects. Then the Gulags, whose inmates tore off the flesh of prehistoric animals uncovered in the summer and ate the meat raw. Then there was Stalin, after whom I was named, but in my defence, I was young and foolish at the time.

Mao launched purges long before he even came to power, and certainly soon afterwards as well. The forced 'Utopianisation' of the communes, the great leap forward, etc., led to the deaths of many millions. Then came the Cultural Revolution.

Then there was Pol Pot and his butchering of all the educated people - I remember the courageous reports of Malcolm Caldwell before the Khmer Rouge murdered him around New Year's Day 1979.

And then, in Ethiopia, something similar under Mengistu. And the Stasi in East Germany. And the Securitate in Rumania.

Yes, Bilger, you are spot-on: dictatorships inevitably lead to brutality on unimaginable scales. They are ALWAYS trumped by imperfect, unruly democracy.

Keep apologising for them, Bilger.

And he's now apologising for ISIS. He should be up there with the Grand Mufti. What heroes.

Joe
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Well said John Pilger. As readers can see,you have the Zionist trolls foaming at the mouth.

Onya Joe

You've placed all of Arjay's heroes in their proper historical perspective.

AND A CORRECTION:

Pilger pilfered Pol Pot's pox.

Great article, John.

However I am always disappointed that you don't apply your own analysis to your own opinions in domestic policy.

We have loads of people in here, yourself included, who implicitly assume that rights are whatever the State says they are. And you can't see the contradiction?