Publisher's Synopsis
This book sheds crucial new light on the epochal US interventions in Southeast Asia after World War II. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under US bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodia history after unprecedented US bombing. The book also includes classic works by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman.
Mark Pavlick is an independent editor. He was active in the US movement against the Indochina wars in volunteer work with the Indochina Mobile Education Project and the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, DC.
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Richard Falk
1. War Crimes in Indochina and Our Troubled National Soul 5
Fred Branfman
2. Excerpts from Voices from the Plain of Jars 19
Collected by Fred Branfman
3. Legacies of War: Cluster Bombs in Laos 23
Channapha Khamvongsa and Elaine Russell
4. Agent Orange in Vietnam 53
Tuan V. Nguyen
5. Iraq, Another Vietnam? Consider Cambodia 75
Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen
6. My Lai and the American Way of War Crimes 85
Gareth Porter
7. The Indonesian Domino 101
Clinton Fernandes
8. "So Many People Died": The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014 119
Nick Turse
9. Bloodbaths in Indochina: Constructive, Nefarious, and Mythical (1979) 125
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
10. From Mad Jack to Mad Henry: The United States in Vietnam (1975) 173
Noam Chomsky
11. After "Mad Henry": US Policy Toward Indochina Since 1975 201
Ngô V˜inh Long
12. My Experiences with Laos and the Indochina Wars 221
Interview with Fred Branfman
13. Interview with Noam Chomsky 251
Glossary of Selected Terms 261
Further Action 267
Recommended Reading 273
Acknowledgments 281
Permissions 283
Notes 285
Index 333
Contributors 351
