I remember when he came to power (yes, I was a kid) and how the US government was praising him for saving Indonesia from the Evil Commies while ignoring the bloodbath.
(This was not long after I watched B-52's take off daily to bomb Vietnam, and not long after my mother had refused to shake hands with Hubert Humphrey (then the US VP) at a reception because of the war. About the same time, my uncle quit an engineering job in Iran when he found that the Iranian government was using the military equipment it had been supplied by the US to massacre Kurds. I suppose experiences like those heightened my awareness of how US foreign policy is pursued.)
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(This was not long after I watched B-52's take off daily to bomb Vietnam, and not long after my mother had refused to shake hands with Hubert Humphrey (then the US VP) at a reception because of the war. About the same time, my uncle quit an engineering job in Iran when he found that the Iranian government was using the military equipment it had been supplied by the US to massacre Kurds. I suppose experiences like those heightened my awareness of how US foreign policy is pursued.)