Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

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Then in another paragraph, the same judge argues that "the United States did not use herbicides in Vietnam with specific intent to destroy any group. Nor were those herbicides designed to harm individuals or to starve a whole population into submission or death.

The herbicides were primarily applied to plants in order to protect troops against ambush, not to destroy people". This argument is of course a judicial farce and the American victims plus their families are still being compensated for a variety of illnesses related to their exposure to Agent Orange.

Even the Supreme Courst refuses to deal with this case. This book merits to be on everyone's shelf! Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Has the right amount of information to keep me interested. I would recommend reading "Waiting for an army to die" before this.

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This book cover victims of agent orange from both side. Putting the verdicts of class actions aside, the American government should spend more effort in helping the Vietnamese clean up the residue dioxin and prevent future generations of Vietnamese from the effects of dioxin. One person found this helpful. Vietnamese are still reeling from the effects of having millions of gallons of a defoliant poured over them, as are many members of the U. The makers assured the government that the defoliant was harmless to humans and animals, that dioxin was harmless. The corporations manufacturing this material and the lies that went with it should be held accountable and the US should pay the Vietnamese and American veterans millions in reparations.

Do not purchase this book unless you have a strong stomach! I wanted to read this book after hearing an interview with the author on NPR. The information in the book was shocking to me.

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I was in my 20's during the Viet Nam War. And yes, I knew we used napalm, and yes, I knew we used a "defoliant".

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What I didn't know was that NO ONE knew what the long-term effects of the spraying would be, no one, of course, except the chemical companies. I know the theories behind the blatant disregard of human life during war, but this was insidious and shameful. And how, so many decades later, can there still be denial about these effects?

I know many people that float on the river "de nile", but this staggers the imagination. Scorched Earth is a real compelling eye opener and informative read on the affects of spraying Agent Orange on the Vietnam people and our American Vietnam Veterans. I have watched my own brother struggle , suffer and fight for years from the effects of the spraying, and only recently has he been compensates for his suffering of Agent Orange by the VA Administration. I hope many people read this book, it will help you understand why so many Vietnam Veterans and there families struggle today, as well, what is happening to many generations of Vietnam people because of our government's spraying mistakes.

It is hard not to be outraged and deeply moved by the distressing results of US and Australian policies of destroying foliage and vegetation without due care and understanding. The suffering of many people, both US, Australian and Vietnamese, their children and grandchildren should haunt us forever. A very important and highly readable account of the tragic legacy the U.

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The title says it all. SO many left with this awful legacy and I one of them.

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Is the legacy of chemical warfare in Vietnam really about us? This article was posted on Tuesday, April 24th, at 8: A Preface to Hope London: Haymarket Books, , Adorno, Critical Models trans.

Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam by Fred A. Wilcox

Columbia University Press, , Adorno, Negative Dialectics trans. Routledge, , Edmund Jephcott et al. Javier Sethness is an educator, translator, and libertarian socialist. He the author of Imperiled Life: Critical Theory, Social Ecology, and Post-Developmentalism , and he is currently finishing a political and intellectual biography of Herbert Marcuse.

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