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Clean Up After Agent Orange
Editorial published in the Boston Globe: September 3, 2009
The apology last week of former US Army Lieutenant William Calley, who was convicted in the killing of hundreds of civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam War, was long overdue. But a more important step in the righting of wrongs left over from that war would be a greater US role in rectifying the health and environmental problems caused by the defoliant Agent Orange.
For 10 years, US forces sprayed Agent Orange and other herbicides on 10 percent of the land surface of South Vietnam, in an effort to destroy crops and deny enemy soldiers cover under the country’s dense foliage...
Aid in the clean-up has come from the Gates and Ford foundations, the United Nations, and the Czech Republic. But the United States bears the ultimate responsibility.
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