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Recently Alexander Cockburn solidified his drift into neo-con right wing demagogue by expounding at length how the crackpot hysteria about hundreds of MIAs being held in IndoChina is real, going so far as to state that hundreds were executed by the Vietnamese after the war when the US failed to pay reparations. This is utter bullshit. There have been missing in action in every war, just that since we lost this one, an issue is being raised about it to maintain animus against Vietnam. missing bodies from the Great War are still being found in the killing fields of Europe and so forth, with the rice paddies and mud of Vietnam being as much of a place for bodies to become obscured. Moreover, the location of many can actually be determined in a material sense if you correlate them with the hundreds of "unknown" dead who were recovered. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
