The Washington Post today manages to write an entire article about the suffering of the Hmong people since the Vietnam War without mentioning the role of Agent Orange in inflicting it. At least they offer this helpful reference point: Pa Sy Herr wandered the mountain jungles of Laos for a quarter-century, barefoot, his hair waist-length, dodging government soldiers, because he and his family feared being killed. Until four years ago, he had never seen a television, a car or a telephone. As if wandering in the jungle in fear for your life wasn't bad enough...
3/07/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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