The Long Hitch Home by Jamie Maslin

The Long Hitch Home by Jamie Maslin

Author:Jamie Maslin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00


Such callous emotional detachment to killing is, in an individual, a clinical indicator of a psychopath. What then does this say of us collectively in the West that so deafening a silence endures surrounding our own atrocities, and instead we are endlessly drilled in the false religion of American and Western virtue?

“We destroyed a civilization,” stated Alfred McCoy, author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, “We wiped it off the face of the planet . . . we incinerated, we atomized human remains in this air war, and what happened in the end? We lost.”153 Following the defeat and ousting of the U.S. from Vietnam, the Pathet Lao took control of Laos. As the U.S. Air Force shut down its radio station, it broadcast a farewell message: “Good-bye and see you next war.”155



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