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The book explicitly judges some tactics as inhumane and unsuccessful, including defoliation and the mention of Agent Orange. How does the author’s moral language change the emotional temperature of the history being told.
To see the results of the saturation and constant spraying of "Agent Orange" and the effect that had on productive farmland and junlgle alike was disgusting! Let no-one tell you otherwise, the Yankee tactic of Saturation spraying with "Agent Orange' is a war crime of vast proporations! Add to that the facts that the Americans were actively interferring with Vietnam since it declared its independence from France in August 1945, and that under the Eisenhower Administration, the Vice President Richard Nixon wanted to put US ground troops into Vietnam from 1953 onwards. In fact, during 1953, he actively supported other US politicians who wanted the implemation of "Operation Vulture", which called for Yankee B29 bombers armed with at least three nuclear warheads to bomb Vietnamese positions around Dien Bien Phu! It was only due to US General Mathew Ridgeway that madness was called off because of his opposition and that of the British Government to it! If that had not happened, WW3 would have taken place in 1953-1954 and it is highly likely that it would have involved a nuclear exchange between the USSR and the USA!
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The book explicitly judges some tactics as inhumane and unsuccessful, including defoliation and the mention of Agent Orange. How does the author’s moral language change the emotional temperature of the history being told.
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To see the results of the saturation and constant spraying of "Agent Orange" and the effect that had on productive farmland and junlgle alike was disgusting! Let no-one tell you otherwise, the Yankee tactic of Saturation spraying with "Agent Orange' is a war crime of vast proporations! Add to that the facts that the Americans were actively interferring with Vietnam since it declared its independence from France in August 1945, and that under the Eisenhower Administration, the Vice President Richard Nixon wanted to put US ground troops into Vietnam from 1953 onwards. In fact, during 1953, he actively supported other US politicians who wanted the implemation of "Operation Vulture", which called for Yankee B29 bombers armed with at least three nuclear warheads to bomb Vietnamese positions around Dien Bien Phu! It was only due to US General Mathew Ridgeway that madness was called off because of his opposition and that of the British Government to it! If that had not happened, WW3 would have taken place in 1953-1954 and it is highly likely that it would have involved a nuclear exchange between the USSR and the USA!
