The U.S. is presently waging another criminal war mercilessly attacking civilians in #Yemen, but this time the U.S. is on the side of the one-party state that is the lead aggressor, Saudi Arabia. Few, if any, American media have made the ironic
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connections between #Laos and #Yemen, but the Hong Kong based Asia Times nailed it despite running a half-wrong headline:
“U.S. apologizes to Laos over cluster bombs,
then sells them to pound #Yemen”
The story that followed, by
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“U.S. apologizes to Laos over cluster bombs,
then sells them to pound #Yemen”
The story that followed, by
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Johns Hopkins Fellow Christina Lin, does not mention the apology that never happened. She reports on President Obama’s speech in Laos this way:
Obama said, “Given our history here, I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal.” This gesture of
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Obama said, “Given our history here, I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal.” This gesture of
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trying to make amends for the damage U.S. caused in the past is laudable, especially since Obama is the first U.S. president to visit Laos. However, one wonders how sincere is this gesture, when U.S. turns around and sells the same cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia for
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similar bombing campaign of another poor country — #Yemen — that is maiming children and will likewise keep the population trapped in dire poverty and devastation for the next several decades.
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