DAI NGHIA VILLAGE, Vietnam—A house sits vacant off a dirt path in Dai An hamlet. The concrete home has a rusted corrugated metal roof, and attached to the building is a small, open-air structure standing on wood supports. Its metal roof is pockmarked with holes that allow sunlight to filter in. People in the hamlet hear mournful cries when they near… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesThis is a big black mark on the history of the U.S.
Thirty years from now, the same things will be happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. We never learn.
Posted by patrick hattman on May 19, 2009 at 3:40 AM Unfortunately not patrick hattman ; as long as profits can be made for the imperialist war mongers who run this industrail military corporate state complex…
No amerikans will never learn.
Additionally , the citizenry has to stop being suckers for every amerikanizationalized scam these war profiteers run.
The real question should be ; when will mainstream amerikans wise up too the scare tactics used to convince them that their tax dollars should be spend on this industrail war machine and it’s molestational intentioned objectives, instead of spending that money on social programs in their own communities??
But then again , amerika was built on the backs of the afrikan slave trade/ labor , and the demonic egomaniacal excesses that erupt from such egregious profiteerism….Most mainstream amerikans don’t have an identification with the indecencies and indiscretions of the origins of that imperialism, so why should anyone expect more from them on this point of fact…Unfortunate but true…...............
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