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The following is why the US is now reaping what it has sown. There is no value to life for Americans. Save for its propaganda value.
Americans did put well over 6 million Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, East Timorese, Indonesians, Laotians, ... into US style "gas chambers".
Dead is dead. War crimes are war crimes. Terrorism is terrorism. US lies about being a beacon of freedom are still just US lies.
Why?
Because Allan Dulles said that in order to maintain the US's wildly uneven possession of the world's wealth, it had to shuck all the BS about freedoms, especially in SE Asia. That was the US plan for post WWII, a big grab of all of Europe's SE Asian colonies. Note that the USA, the beacon of freedom had been plundering Central and South American countries for years.
Yea, so? You act like you're giving out breaking news. Halberstam beat you to it by about four decades. We were in a world power struggle with the Soviets. We feared they would "topple the dominoes" before we could get there. Of course, it was about wealth and power. One can call the policy misguided, wrong, etc. Do you think anyone is now presenting it as intelligent policy?