My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
I don't judge myself by what someone says.
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.