American WMDs
It's pretty depressing reading about the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam, as I did in the Globe this weekend, but it makes sense that the American government would be so conscious of weapons of mass destruction and their potential, that's for sure. What's bizarre is its failure to recognize its own guilt in their use.
I mean, call me anti-American, but how can Americans see themselves as good guys when we all know what we all know (and I cringe at what we don't - yet...). You'd think, at the very least, the American government would own up to the human and environmental devastation it caused with Agent Orange, a weapon of mass destruction, and offer up reparations to the victims in Vietnam, if only to give the appearance of being better than... well... say... Saddam Hussein who so famously gassed the Kurds. (Tell me Monsanto didn't manufacture THAT gas, too...).
The war is over, afterall, and money is just money, not honour.
