By Noam Chomsky
Part 1- "Losing" the
World
Significant anniversaries
are solemnly commemorated -- Japan's
attack on the U.S. naval
base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are
ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely
to lie ahead. Right now, in fact.
At the moment, 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 South Vietnam with some
of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and
food crops.








