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Contrary to what most people think, the Algerians lost the war. After subjecting them to a steady onslaught of pillage, bombs, napalm and the most unspeakable, systematic torture, and after smashing the core of the FLN's leadership, the French clinched their victory by building an enormous electric fence along the Tunisian border. The fence cut the lifeline of the revolution because nearly all of the FLN's arms were smuggled across this border. However, the fence cost a fortune to guard and maintain, and there were problems of inevitable future insurrection and French public opinion. De Gaulle weighed these...
Inconsistencies. A photographer for Gamma Photo Agency is on the trail for two weeks; he speaks with the kind of cynicism bred in the anti-war movement and demonstrations against war-engineer Walt Rostow, where Rostow says something like, "I've never seen the effects of napalm but it can't be all that bad," and he (photographer, then student) turns down house lights and starts up a film showing bombs falling on North Vietnam, while Rostow (unaware of screen behind) continues to defend the war. That cynicism creeps back when the Gamma man talks about Reagan who, according...
...modes of perception. War is one of the few experiences that whole cultures can share. In the past ten years, we all shared Vietnam by watching it on television. We saw it in a heap of bodies at Mylai, in the naked girl running down a road crying as napalm burned through her skin. But, as Fussell says, our culture began to learn how to accept this long ago through a perception that is ironic, accepting an experience that will never conform to our moral values. And we began to learn this ironic form of understanding during World...
...government's motive to give aid should be basically the same as the scientists'. Scientists have a special duty to help the Vietnamese because they "developed the napalm, defoliants and antipersonnel bombs which ravaged Vietnam," as one of them said last week, and the government that dropped those bombs and guided those scientists' work should feel that duty even more deeply...
...cent of state and corporate money has been given to social sciences, apparently in the belief that studying different political and social systems might make future technical workers too critical to heed thoughtlessly commands to maximize kill densities for Honeywell's latest "anti-personnel" weapon or Dow Chemical's napalm account...