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"David Looser" wrote in message

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"David Looser" wrote in

Mind you the use of chemical defoliants sounds a lot like chemical
and/or biological warfare.

That is a really broad brush you're weilding there. The defoliants
were mostly 2, 4D which is a household chemical in the US.

Simply using defoliants amounts to biological warfare.

OK we killed some plants (biological entities) using chemicals.

Did "you" (in the sense you use "we") not also kill others with those
chemicals? Partly due to factors like starvation and loss of livelyhood.
Partly due to the effects those chemicals on the population. Have you
perhaps forgotten Agent Orange and the other 'agents' used, and for example
long term cancer-causing 'side effects' some turned out to have?

Or are things like these now "non history" in the USA and have been blanked
from textbooks and memories? if so, a curious parallel with the way history
was revised in the USSR as suited the current beloved leader(s). Shades of
1984...


You seem to be conflating killing plants and killing people.

I see a big difference!

You may see a difference. But you don't seem to have seen that the
chemicals may have also directly or indirectly killed or harmed people. So
perhaps reality doesn't always provide the clean division your reponses
assert or presume. Maybe your scope of vision is too narrow.

I'm not trying to argue who is/was better or worse (morally) than others
when it comes to conflict. Just pointing out that the reality was that
those 'household chemicals' may well have caused deaths and injuries -
sometimes years after the US forces abandoned the place and helcoptered
away. Sometimes even to those unborn when the chemicals were sprayed. Not
quite as neat and tidy as you "see" perhaps. Perhaps you could take time to
reflect on this and not simply rush to dismiss what I've said. The truth is
rarely pure or simple.

Slainte,

Jim

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