Phosphorous bomb - Vietnam War  
     
Report of the Subcommittee on
     
Ethical, Legal & Policy Issues
    

    
From the Preface

This report deals with issues that are subject to heated dispute. They include military aggression, violations of international law, war crimes, ecocide, imperialism, and responsibility for widespread, prolonged human suffering.
     
It is difficult to avoid controversy when dealing with such matters, and it is virtually impossible in the case of the Vietnam War. For one thing, many of those directly involved are still alive and are emotionally committed to one or another interpretation of its history.
     
Another aggravating factor is that any discussion of these issues necessarily involves the most powerful nation on earth-- a superpower which exercises a degree of global hegemony that is without precedent. . . .
     
The current conventional wisdom regarding the Vietnam War, including its history and consequences, has been strongly influenced by the dominant interests of U.S. society. To a large extent, those interests are the same today as when the war was being planned and executed.
     
This report does not reflect those interests. . . .

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