Behind Closed Doors Of Agent Orange Funding

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Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh, who attended the 4th Vietnam-US defence policy dialogue in Washington DC, said the US should pay more attention to dealing with war aftermath in Vietnam
The U.S. has begun to fund cleanup and treatment programs for Agent Orange victims in Vietnam lately, but what are the true motives of these programs?

That’s the question being asked by the website The People’s Voice in this recent article, which wonders whether USAID is really being used to meddle in the country’s affairs as part of President Obama’s ‘Asian Pivot’ strategy.

From their March 27 article:

Ecocide was committed when “the U.S. military sprayed 79 million liters of herbicides and defoliants over about one-seventh of the land area of southern Vietnam.” The 2008-2009 President’s Cancer Panel Report found that nearly five million Vietnamese were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in “400,000 deaths and disabilities and a half million children born with birth defects.”

No one has been held accountable for this crime. U.S. courts have blocked lawsuits brought by the people of Vietnam, and the United States has never paid adequate war reparations to assist in caring for the victims of Agent Orange or to clean up the environment.

In recent years, however, the U.S. has begun to fund cleanup and treatment programs for Agent Orange victims. The timing of this change in policy comes as the U.S. military has been building a relationship with the Vietnamese military as part of the so-called “Asian Pivot.” Yet this relationship has been impaired by the United States’ failure to properly deal with Agent Orange.

Funding for Agent Orange damages is being used to open the door to greater U.S. military involvement and influence in the region, but it will also allow an expansion of U.S. covert operations in Vietnam that set the stage for the U.S. to install a “friendlier” government, if necessary for U.S. hegemony in the region.

One of the main U.S. goals in the country appears to be positioning itself as an arms dealer to the Vietnamese while reducing the influence and cooperation of the Russian military in the country, the article added.

The U.S. has used USAID as a catalyst for regime changes in the past and the article mentioned the possibility of something similar happening in Vietnam.

Rather than paying war reparations, the U.S. is using Agent Orange as a Trojan Horse to further U.S. militarization in Vietnam, escalate conflict with China and break the Vietnamese relationship with Russia. It may also be laying the groundwork for regime change if Vietnam does not comply as a tool of U.S. Empire.

Vietnam should continue to demand war reparations that are adequate for the problems the U.S. created and keep the U.S. military at arm’s length. Vietnam should kick out USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, and demand that payments be made directly to Vietnam to keep U.S. meddling out of their country. Indeed, the U.S. should not be allowed to leverage the war crime of its use of Agent Orange as a tool for more U.S. militarism and intervention.

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