tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28411615.post3365279575181971783..comments2023-06-24T16:06:41.407+07:00Comments on andy's cambodia : andybrouwer.blogspot.com: A Road Not TakenAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138808270729932935noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28411615.post-65192571926562000002007-09-17T05:28:00.000+07:002007-09-17T05:28:00.000+07:00I am SO delighted to have come across your blog en...I am SO delighted to have come across your blog entry on my commentary on Cambodia and that you have noticed by book, which will be published next month in the US and UK, "A Shattered Peace."<BR/> This was indeed an epiphanal event in my life ... and helped to form the kind of journalist I would become over the next 32 years ... it also resonates deeply in "A Shattered Peace" where I devote a lengthy section to the treatment by the western powers of a young man who would later become Ho Chi Minh ... their snubs contributing substantially to his transformation into a Comintern-sponsored communist and his return to Indochina to lead the revolution. <BR/> The lessons from those days, however, a pertinent to a number of regions that I discuss from Mesopotamia to the Balkans that you mind find quite intriguing. <BR/> I'd be delighted to hear your further reaction!@<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/>David<BR/><BR/>dandelman@forbes.netdandelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09054358527249785685noreply@blogger.com