When I lived in Oakland, the laundromat across the street from my apt. bldg. was owned by a Hmong. The mgr. was the sole male survivor among his immediate family, several brothers and his Father having been soldiers in the CIA created Hmong army <URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=Hmong+CIA > of 10,000. On your rules, if I only knew about this aspect of the Vietnam War via, Warner, Roger. Shooting at the moon : the story of America' clandestine war in Laos / Roger Warner. South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, c1996 or Warner, Roger. Back fire : the CIA's secret war in Laos and its links to the war in Vietnam / Roger Warner. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995 or obbins, Christopher, 1946-The Ravens : the men who flew in America's secret war in Laos / Christopher Robbins. New York : Crown, c1987 or Nolan, Keith William, 1964-Into Laos : the story of Dewey Canyon II/Lam Son 719, Vietnam 1971 / Keith William Nolan. Novato, CA : Presidio, c1986 or Fall, Bernard B., 1926-1967. Anatomy of a crisis; the Laotian crisis of 1960-1961. Edited with an epilogue by Roger M. Smith. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969 or Burchett, Wilfred G., 1911-The second Indochina war; Cambodia and Laos, by Wilfred G. Burchett. New York, International Publishers [1970] or Brown, MacAlister. Apprentice revolutionaries : the Communist movement in Laos, 1930-1985 / MacAlister Brown, Joseph J. Zasloff. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c1986 or Branfman, Fred. Voices from the Plain of Jars; life under an air war. Compiled, with an introd. and pref. by Fred Branfman. New York, Harper & Row [1972] or Two, three ... many Vietnams; a radical reader on the wars in Southeast Asia and the conflicts at home. Edited by the editors of Ramparts with Banning Garrett and Katherine Barkley. San Francisco, Canfield Press [1971] or Laos: war and revolution. Edited by Nina S. Adams and Alfred W. McCoy. New York, Harper & Row [c1970] BIB Call Number: 959.7 B7345v ISBN: 0060903007 : $1.95 or Conflict in Indo- China; a reader on the widening war in Laos and Cambodia. Edited by Marvin and Susan Gettleman and Lawrence and Carol Kaplan. New York, Random House [1970], I'D HAVE NO STANDING TO COMMENT ON THE HMONG AND THE CIA/OPIUM POPPY SMUGGLING, ETC?
That is as silly as some 20 yr. old college student saying that if I as a gay white male in San Francisco wish to comment on the struggles of third world transgenger prostitutes in Thailand like Solidarity member Peter Drucker <URL: http://solidarity.igc.org/atc/96Kinsman.html >here <URL: http://www.iire.org/workingpapers.html > N° 31 "In the Tropics There Is No Sin": Homosexuality and Gay/Lesbian Movements in the Third World, by Peter Drucker , I have no epistemological or ontological standing.
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