I have read hardly any Chomsky, and have never been one of his "followers".
Simple question - did the US, or did it not, massively bomb Cambodia despite the fact that it was a NEUTRAL COUNTRY in the war?? Causing huge destruction and loss of innocent life.
I mean, the KR itself said that nothing did more to bring them to power. And it was observed by many at the time and so wasn't a result of your pet bogeyman brainwashing people.
The reality is that the Vietnam War, like the Iraq War more recently, was both totally indefensible and did massive harm to the standing of America in the wider world.
As I thought you have absolutely nothing. No evidence, no theory, an uncited claim the KM asserted something which even if true proves nothing. Because it is not true, and it makes no sense for it to be.
North Vietnam invaded Cambodia with 100,000 troops and drove the Royal Cambodian Army out of a third of the country. Maybe the foriegn Communist Army which armed the Khmer Rouge had a greater role than the poorly executed ARVN operation which failed to drive them out?
Yes, I guess you could argue a better executed operation would have prevented it. But the failure of the Bay of Pigs can be blamed for the lack of democracy in Cuba too. The closest thing is backing Lon Nol was a strategic mistake in the same way allowing the overthrow of Diem turned out to be.
In short you are proving the point. This is boo,er mythology spread by people who neither have any knowledge of the period or any interest in it