Great is the Guilt of an Unnecessary War - Vietnam Edition

by Will

Liberty Minute July 23 2013

The Vietnam War ended forty years ago, but its toxic legacy lives on in children born decades after the conflict came to a close. One of them is 12-year-old Thi Ly, whose head is unnaturally large and visibly misshapen and her eyes are separated by an unusual distance and out of alignment. From the time she was an infant, Ly has been repeatedly hospitalized for numerous ailments. Her 43-year-old mother, Le Thi Thu, has similar deformities.

Both of them are second-  and third-generation victims of exposure to dioxin as a result of the U.S. military?s use of a defoliant called Agent Orange that was used extensively over parts of southern Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The U.S. Air Force  sprayed more than 20 million gallons of Agent Orange during the war.

The U.S. government has grudgingly admitted that Agent Orange was responsible for diseases among American Vietnam veterans, but has never acknowledged that it is also to blame for birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that continue to plague Vietnamese citizens.

John Adams warned us: ?Great is the guilty of an unnecessary war.? That guilt is compounded when those who waged it refuse to acknowledge the harm they?ve done to the innocent.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. 

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