> Rebuilding Afghanistan?
> by William Blum
>
> Nothing of the promised reconstruction aid was ever paid. Or ever will be.
> During the same period, Laos and Cambodia were devastated by US
> bombing as unrelentlessly as was Vietnam. After the Indochina wars
> were over, these nations, too, qualified to become beneficiaries of
> the America's "traditional policy" of zero reconstruction.
Not quite. A US government controlled by rentier thugs did nothing, but the US people have been remarkably generous about accepting millions of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian immigrants; lots of neat programs are happening in US universities, new translations of Vietnamese poets, things like that. Got to be careful with that "America" word.
-- Dennis