>From: Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Blum on rebuilding Afghanistan
>Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 16:38:09 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Mark Pavlick wrote:
>
> > 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.
Really? I had the impression that it was the US gov't controlled by rentier thugs that sets immigration policy. And I'd suggest that it's entirely clear if translations of Vietnamese poets into English counts as reconstruction.
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