Laos continues to be crippled by the savage bombing campaign carried out during the Vietnam war, where the U.S. dropped more bombs on Laos than it had during all of World War II.
I wish we could turn back time and undo this tragedy. The best we can do is not repeat it. But one of the problems you mentioned is even more of a problem today. You said there was not one American reporter in Laos to report on what was happening. Even today, the majority of journalism and reporting comes from very few field sources and a whole bunch of people who never get up from behind a desk. There are some brave journalists who go to the dangerous places, but we fool ourselves if we think we’d know better now than in 1970.
Shoutout to Henry Kissinger for blowing up Southeast Asia and getting a nobel peace prize for it. For those of you who were wondering if there was justice in the world, he still has his nobel peace prize and he is still alive at 100 years old.
I wish we could turn back time and undo this tragedy. The best we can do is not repeat it. But one of the problems you mentioned is even more of a problem today. You said there was not one American reporter in Laos to report on what was happening. Even today, the majority of journalism and reporting comes from very few field sources and a whole bunch of people who never get up from behind a desk. There are some brave journalists who go to the dangerous places, but we fool ourselves if we think we’d know better now than in 1970.
Shoutout to Henry Kissinger for blowing up Southeast Asia and getting a nobel peace prize for it. For those of you who were wondering if there was justice in the world, he still has his nobel peace prize and he is still alive at 100 years old.