21-28 may, a smiling President of the United States of America Barack Obama will travel to Vietnam and Japan. For the first time in history an American President will visit the city of Hiroshima, which in itself is unusual. I do not set out the main American Express condolences to the Japanese people over the death of nearly 300 thousand people as a result of the atomic bombing of that city by American aircraft on August 6, 1945?
The program of the visit is still unknown, but so as not to cause unnecessary expectations, assistant to the President for national security Susan rice has warned that “the upcoming visit of President Barack Obama in this city should not be interpreted as an apology”. He will visit Hiroshima in order to strengthen the friendship between the Japanese and American soldiers. Of course. I want to show Beijing from the ashes of Hiroshima, a Japanese soldier stands firmly on guard of the interests of the United States.
Actually, nothing from smiling Obama, no one expected. He is not German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who knelt before the monument to the dead participants in the uprising in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. In the US administration understand well: once you start, then worldwide on your knees will be. In Japan the same then in Nagasaki have pants to wipe. And there the Germans with the victims of carpet bombing will come out. And they, these victims, in Dresden, Leipzig and Hamburg for two nights in April 1944 200 thousand people was formed. And look to the Bavarians, which American troops liberated without fighting, will roll by over 900 thousands of their women raped. Calculated the same villains, with German punctuality, did not want to accept the fact that in war as in war.
Even with Vietnam, the situation is not simple. Still, Washington has allocated a broad gesture this country as much as $ 43 million for the restoration of poisoned Americans territories. It would seem that it is possible to quietly look in the eyes of the Vietnamese. Although they know why such an incident happened. The U.S. Supreme court for a long time any harmful effects on the Vietnamese land and people of Vietnam to be recognized as not wanted and never would have recognized if not for American veterans. These selfish minded citizens of the United States gathered in the organization and has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto and Dow Chemical – the manufacturers of “agent orange” (a mixture of defoliants and herbicides), which the US air force bombarded Vietnam. Because in addition to the Vietnamese army and the guerrillas were there, and the U.S. military, who also experienced the effects from the effects of this powder, although they are not specifically pollinate. The U.S. Supreme court, no matter how spun, was forced to make the decision to pay 15 thousands of veterans compensation for health damages in the amount of $ 180 million. There’s the state Department had nowhere to go. The damage from the “agent orange” was named by the court, and Vietnam was stretched a helping hand, in which lay a 43 million U.S. dollars. This will help Vietnam? I do not know. “Agent orange”, containing the strongest poison dioxin, were devastated by 10 years of war, 2 million hectares of fertile land in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Americans ruined the land now gives the infected crop. Dioxin decomposes very slowly, and in order to eliminate the effects of “treatment”, you need to remove and remove the top fertile layer, replacing it with a new one.
Once in the human body, dioxin causes liver disease and blood, diabetes, cancer, disruption of normal pregnancy, deformities in newborns. In Vietnam, there are about 4.8 million victims of “agent orange”. In Vietnam, a generation of children-freaks are kept in special institutions. Of these patients, there are more than 150 thousand, and the Vietnamese government is not able to create for them normal conditions. Not so long ago the world people have seen the shocking photos of photojournalist Matt Andersen about a children’s shelter for victims of dioxin on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh city. Children with monstrous deformities sit in a cell without any facilities. And the shelters in Vietnam are innumerable.
Hardly President Obama decides to visit one of these establishments. After all, the goal of his visit is not in the apology to the people of Vietnam. Again, once you apologize – then tired to apologize. Only in South-East Asia will be immediately in turn to Laos and Cambodia.
The purpose of Obama’s visit is quite different – to strengthen the U.S. position in the southern underbelly of China. And Vietnam is very suitable for this. He and the conflict with China over Islands in the South China sea, and the naval base at Cam Ranh would be nice to lay hands, yet the Vietnamese did not give her again Moscow. Truly nothing personal – just business.
The logic of the Americans reinforced concrete: not for that we around the world have established their own rules to today about collateral damage to grieve. After all these tragedies of the peoples caught under the steamroller of American politics, in Washington, DC as collateral damage – collateral damage. The US administration doesn’t bother me that the bill goes to the hundreds of thousands and millions of people. Still not fully counted the number of victims of the latest adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, though clearly it is huge. So what? After Barak Obama in the United States will come to power new smiling President, and a skating rink of American politics rolled on, despite collateral damage. Unless, of course, the movement of the rink someone will not stop.
