It's more like they were using pure cowardice to destroy the smart.
On one hand they can start a Pol Pot (25% of the Cambodian population dead, recovery virtually impossible) without much obstruction and in the other hand they can't even secure Vietnam.
Number 8 on the Umberto Eco list for identifying fascism.
The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
If they can rig the largest presidential election ever they can rig a jury of 12.
It's more like they were using pure cowardice to destroy the smart.
On one hand they can start a Pol Pot (25% of the Cambodian population dead, recovery virtually impossible) without much obstruction and in the other hand they can't even secure Vietnam.