2012
> .. we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching #SouthVietnam with some of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and food crops.
https://tomdispatch.com/noam-chomsky-hegemony-and-its-dilemmas/
#KennedyOnVietnam #JFK #RethinkingCamelot

> As one highly expert (and very hawkish) study explains, the goal of Kennedy’s 1961 escalation was “to fight the insurgency by destroying its economic base and disrupting the social fabric of the areas where the [National Liberation] Front was strongest” (Eric Bergerud). These decisions changed U.S. involvement decisively: from support for a standard Latin America-style terror state to direct aggression against #SouthVietnam.
https://chomsky.info/199508__/
#RethinkingCamelot #KennedyOnVietnam

> ... thousands of Vietnamese.. “still die from the effects of American chemical warfare,” so we learn from the Israeli press, where the veteran correspondent #AmnonKapeliouk describes what he saw in Saigon hospitals: children dying of cancer ... describing South Vietnam, which was targeted for chemical warfare by John F. Kennedy and his successors.. he listened to the “hair-raising stories that remind me of what we heard during the trials of #Eichmann and #Demjanjuk”
https://chomsky.info/199508__/
#RethinkingCamelot #JFK #JohnFKennedy #KennedyOnVietnam