Cambodia Delenda Est

JOHN GREENWAY

If the 600,000-word vocabulary of the English language were adequate to make a tragedy out of a statistic, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But when “genocide” is used to describe federal refusal to fund abortions for the promiscuous poor, what is there left in Roget to call the extermination of as much as a quarter of the Cambodian population in less than two years?

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JOHN GREENWAY

If the 600,000-word vocabulary of the English language were adequate to make a tragedy out of a statistic, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But when “genocide” is used to describe federal refusal to fund abortions for the promiscuous poor, what is there left in Roget to call the extermination of as much as a quarter of the Cambodian population in less than two years?