'''And we owe them something, those boys. We owe them first a promise: That just as they did not forget their missing comrades, neither, ever, will we. And there are other promises. We must always remember that peace is a fragile thing that needs constant vigilance. We owe them a promise to look at the world with a steady gaze and, perhaps, a resigned toughness, knowing that we have adversaries in the world and challenges and the only way to meet them and maintain the peace is by staying strong. <small>---[[President Ronald Reagan]], 1986</small>'''}}
With a range of 1.1 to 1.5 million executed and 1-2 million worked or starved to death by the state in Communist Cambodia, and a mid-value estimate of about 2.8 million killed (which is in line with Cambodia's 1975 population of 6.8 million<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> falling to 4 million by 1979<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>, and with subsequent studies estimating there were 1.39 million executions), about a million killed in South Vietnam, a mid-value total of one million deaths under Samrin's regime, nearly half a mllion killed in the Cambodian civil war and famine, and nearly 200,000 killed in Laos; the The death toll from US defeat far arguably surpassed that exacted by the war itself.
==Controversies about the War==
