CONTENTS
Contributors XX
Acknowledgments and Permissions XX
Message XX
Introduction XX
Richard Falk
1 War Crimes in Indochina and Our Troubled National Soul XX
Fred Branfman
2 Excerpts from Voices from the Plain of Jars XX
Collected by Fred Branfman
3 Legacies of War: Cluster Bombs in Laos XX
Channapha Khamvongsa and Elaine Russell
4 Agent Orange in Vietnam XX
Tuan V. Nguyen
5 Iraq, Another Vietnam? Consider Cambodia XX
Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen
6 Who Was Responsible for My Lai?
The Peers Commission and the American Way of War Crimes XX
Gareth Porter
7 Thailand in the Era of the Cold War and Rama IX XX
Jim Glassman
8 Concealing War Crimes XX
Nick Turse
9 Bloodbaths in Indochina:
Constructive, Nefarious, and Mythical XX
Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
10 From Mad Jack to Mad Henry:
The United States in Vietnam XX
Noam Chomsky
11 After “Mad Henry”: U.S. Policy Toward Indochina Since 1975
XX
Ngo Vinh Long
12 My Experiences with Laos and the Indochina Wars:
Interview with Fred Branfman XX
13 Interview with Noam Chomsky XX
Glossary of Selected Terms XX
Further Action XX
Recommended Reading XX
Notes XX
Index XX
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Mark Pavlick is an independent editor. He was active in the U.S. movement against the Indochina wars in volunteer work with the Indochina Mobile Education Project and the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, D.C.
"The text Pavlick and Luft have put together is both history and
forewarning. By the very nature of its subject matter, it can not
be light reading. It barely touches the catalog of horrors that the
US war on the people of Southeast Asia was. At the same time, it is
a useful and potent introduction to a history too few US residents
truly know and one that most US leaders would like to hide. There
is no respite from the true nature of the war on Southeast Asia in
these pages. Indeed, the only relief can be found in the knowledge
that all proceeds from the book’s sale will go to humanitarian
assistance in Indochina." —CounterPunch
“Extremely important and pertinent…. The importance of the
historical events and arguments made in this book cannot be
overstated; the government of the United States waged war against
the three countries of Indochina for years, even though none had
harmed the United States or were vital to American security or
geopolitical interests. In the course of those wars, massive
atrocities were committed, undoubtedly war crimes. The United
States has never taken responsibility for those actions nor has it
punished the criminals who committed these acts… Moreover,
the extent of these atrocities have been kept from the American
public and the lack of historical awareness of these events
prevents Americans from learning important lessons about how their
government acts in their names and precludes learning important
lessons to prevent any other occurrences such as these.” —Critical
Asian Studies
"A well-researched and powerfully presented overview...." —David
Swanson
“The content of this book is unavoidably grim, and it can be
tempting to turn away. Yet the individual essays, clear and
carefully researched, are especially useful for classroom
purposes.” —Peace & Change
“Within the academic disciplines of international relations and
diplomatic history, there still exists the perception that the U.S
military engagement in Southeast Asia was an honorable but
ill-advised adventure. Moral outrage is often absent among
historians and political scientists. Mark Pavlick’s edited volume
illuminates these American wars as a denial of democracy, and a
crime against humanity. The United States, Southeast Asia, and
Historical Memory has educated me, and it should educate my
colleagues.” —Lubna Qureshi, author of Nixon, Kissinger, and
Allende: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile
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