Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tang, but the second bombing seemed only a useless attack on Cambodian resources to emphasize this point to the American people, and to emphasize to the world that the United States will continue to recklessly bomb other cities in other lands--just as it did in North Vietnam--to protect its interests...
...screening process. They assassinated NLF officials and people accused of being NLF officials, and the program was heavily financed and advised by the U.S.--In 1971. William E. Colby testified at Congressional hearings that the--Phoenix program--which was under his direction--was "an essential element of Vietnam's defense against Vietcong subversion and terrorism...
NONE OF THIS is new. It was the United States that supported a succession of repressive regimes in Cambodia and Vietnam. It was the United States that dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs throughout Indochina; the United States can hardly determine justly who among the refugees of Indochina are good enough to become its citizens...
...into practice. For the government to screen out "undesirables" is more like Nazi Germany managing to survive the war and then denying refuge to Quisling or Laval on the grounds that they were undemocratic. If principles established after World War II were used today, justice for war crimes in Vietnam and Cambodia would be administered by the victorious governments in those countries...
...refugees should be allowed into the United States because many Americans--too many--bear more responsibility for war crimes in Indochina than even the most corrupt members of the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes. If justice is being sought for Vietnam war criminals, then the place to start is not with middle-echelon refugees, but with American policy-makers like Nixon and Kissinger, the men who engineered the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972. And if the war has not taught us to distinguish policy-makers from those who carry out their plans, we should not screen out members...