On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:28:14 -0000, Bear
wrote:
>In article , Alan says...
>>
>>
>>
>> Bear wrote in message
>> news:MPG.204827e855c55e81989a67@news.individual.net...
>> >
>> > It does throw up some odd ones though; I know one chap who was SAS,
>> > and
>> > resigned rather than follow Maggies instructions to go teach the
>> > Khmer
>> > Rouge counter-insurgency. Apparently about 30 officers felt the same
>> > way, and they resigned commission rather than go teach a bunch of
>> > arseholes how to be better arseholes.
>> >
>> Really? Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia which kicked out the Khmer
>> Rouge, January 7 1979 - General election UK May 3 1979. So that would
>> have been Jim Callahan as PM during the Khmer regime, not Maggie.
>
>*bzzzzzt*
>
>Wrong, but thanks for playing.
>
>Hint: they asked for help a lot later. ICBA to google, but I presume
>its pretty widely written about.
How could they ask for help in counter-insurgency *after* they were
removed from power?
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