stabilization is fundamental to any effective strategy....The US should encourage LDC
leaders to take the lead in advancing family planning." When NSSM 200 goes on to ask,
"would food be considered an instrument of national power?" it is clear to all that active
measures of genocide are at the heart of the policy being propounded. A later Kissinger
report praises the Chinese communist leadership for their committment to population
control. During 1975, these Chinese communists, Henry Kissinger and George Bush were
to team up to create a demonstration model of the NSSM 200 policy: the Pol Pot regime
in Cambodia.
During the time that Bush was in Beijing, the fighting in Vietnam came to an end as the
South Vietnamese army collapsed in the face of a large-scale invasion from the north.
The insane adventure of Vietnam had been organized by Bush's own Brown Brothers,
Harriman/Skull and Bones network. When John F. Kennedy had been elected president in
1960, he had turned to Brown Brothers, Harriman partner Robert Lovett to provide him a
list of likely choices for his cabinet. From this list were drawn Rusk and McNamara, the
leadings hawks in the cabinet. McGeorge and William Bundy, descendants of the
Lowells of Boston, but closely related to the Stimson-Acheson circles, were mainstays of
the party of escalation. Henry Cabot Lodge was the US Ambassador in Saigon when the
Harriman had insisted on assassinating President Diem, the leader of the country the US
was supposedly defending. Harriman, starting as assistant secretary for Southeast Asian
affairs, had worked his way up through the Kennedy-Johnson State Department with the
same program of expanding the war. Now that Harriman-Lovett policy had led to the
inevitable debacle. But the post-war suffering of southeast Asia was only beginning.
Target Cambodia
One of the gambits used by Kissinger to demonstrate to the Beijing communist leaders
the utility of rapprochement with the US was the unhappy nation of Cambodia. The pro-
US government of Cambodia was headed by Marshal Lon Nol, who had taken power in
1970, the year of the public and massive US ground incursion into the country. By the
spring of 1975, while the North Vietnamese advanced on Saigon, the Lon Nol
government was fighting for its life against the armed insurrection of the Khmer Rouge
communist guerillas, who were supported by mainland China. Kissinger was as anxious
as usual to serve the interests of Beijing, and now even more so, because of the alleged
need to increase the power of the Chinese and their assets, the Khmer rouge, against the
triumphant North Vietnamese. The most important consideration remained to ally with
China, the second strongest land power, against the USSR. Secondarily, it was important
to maintain the balance of power in Southeast Asia as the US policy collapsed.
Kissinger's policy was therefore to jettison the Lon Nol government, and to replace it
with the Khmer rouge. George Bush, as Kissinger's liaison man in Beijing, was one of the
instruments through which this policy was executed. Bush did his part, and the result is
known to world history under the heading of the Pol Pot regime, which committed a
genocide against its own population proportionally greater than any other in recent world
history.