[lbo-talk] James Burnham and the Struggle for the World, by Daniel Kelly

[Michael Pugliese]

<URL: 
http://www.independent.org/tii/content/pubs/review/books/tir81_kelley.html 
>
> ...how to win in Vietnam: “biological and chemical weapons should be 
> used. North Vietnam's rice crop could be wiped out, while an 
> 'incapacitating gas' might prove ideal for ridding South Vietnamese 
> villages of Vietcong infiltrators, since the latter could be seized 
> without risk to friendly locals. Nuclear devices also could be put to 
> use, e.g., cobalt dust to create a radioactive barrier between the two 
> Vietnams… . To permit irrational taboos to block the use of such weapons 
> was unpardonable” (qtd. on p. 313). Absent the will (my term, not 
> Kelly's) to commit such war crimes, a “staggering defeat” loomed (p. 315) 
> .
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Michael Pugliese