'The Killing Fields'

Could you imagine being such a die-hard journalist that you stick around in war-torn countries just for the story? You don't run from the bombs, you run toward them. Murders and genocide? Get on the boat and seek it out. Arrest and death be damned!

I do acknowledge these people as being better than me, but I do like it when you see or see protrayed the Western journalist in a third-world country trying to explain to the non-English speaking guerilla warrior or savage that they're not only "from (insert Western country here)" but that they're a "journalist."

Did many Khmer Rouge soldiers really give a hoot? No, they just pollute.

Also, I find it odd that folks are so quick to believe a new regime when they take power -- that everything's going to be OK. Then things clearly don't go OK and almost everyone is cool with waiting out the bad period. Like a bunch of those people couldn't overtake those shitty Khmer Rouge soldiers and start taking them out. When things are at their worst, people don't realize it can get even more so.