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: I read the link. It is to be expected that plenty of SOGs that had no part in this sort of thing would be infuriated by the implications of an article that alleged US use of nerve gas. The argument does look like "plausible deniability," however. Here is another link discussing the story. : The whole issue does appear to be a lot of crying over spilled milk, from a certain perspective. What I am concerned to show is that advocates of an American foreign policy that advocates the real promotion of basic American values such as freedom and democracy must necessarily advertise itself as an alternative to most historical American foreign policies.
OK. I'll bite. There is, on the surface, an apparent contradiction
between the advocacy of freedom and democracy and the policy of subverting free elections in Laos. If I grant you that will you grant
me that U.S. policy could have been guided by a fairly resonable
expectation of future communist atrocities.
All I really suggest is that U.S. anti-communist policy saw only the
forest and not the trees but the overall motivation to stop communist
imperialism was proper and good. That forest was quite dark and foreboding.
Stuart Gort
