Word: napalming
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...university for the military training of the future butchers of workers and peasants around the world. Fully 70 percent of U.S. Army officers are recruited and trained by ROTC. Today their "adventures" include a Bay of Pigs II against Nicaragua, arming and training the bloody Salvadoran junta, dropping napalm (invented at Harvard) on Cambodia. Tomorrow they hope to annihilate the USSR...
...Salvador, twice the amount the White House had previously requested. But Weinberger and Reagan are wasting their time training Salvadoran government troops to crush the rebelling peasants: the regime's strongman, Roberto d' Aubuisson, has already made his wishes explicitly clear. "All I want from the USA is napalm," he has said. "We must destroy completely to achieve pacification...
...LAST THING moviegoers heard from Southeast Asia was Apocalypse Now, in which Robert Duvall glored in early morning napalm raids and Marlon Brando muttered T.S. Eliot as the flames of the Vietnam War engulfed him. In that ill-fated reworking of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola confirmed the capacity of great directors for self-indulgence, as he frantically flailed to capture all the anguish and horror of a decade...
Mayo never stops to consider Foley's off-hand remark that part of an officer's preparation is coming to grips with "dropping a little napalm on a village where there might even be women and children." Later, in a rather superfluous confrontation with a bar-full of townies, the hero ignores the taunt of "warmonger" and breaks noses only when the locals actually threaten him and Paula...
...planes were loaded with "anti-personnel devices," the conventional equivalent of neutron bombs, designed to slice people with indiscrimination. Our planes carried napalm, burning jelly that clung to humans. Our planes bombed dikes, and ruined farms, carpeted the country with craters, made an entire race cringe at the sound of a jet engine. One unanswered question, by the way, is how much of the barbarity of the North Vietnamese communist results from the shambles in which we left their land. We know many of our veterans came home from the war irremediable fucked up, still whimpering at fire fights acted...