A 9-year bombing campaign on Northern Laos to block supplies from entering Vietnam during the war left approximately tens of millions of unexploded bombs on it's land, which had killed many of its native citizens including children. Today, President Obama announced that $90 million dollars will be sent to the country of Laos for the following three years to several pre-existing organizations to clean up or dis-assemble the bombs. www.worldatlas.com/as/la/where-is-laos.html
With our economy in constant up-and-down turmoil my question is??
Although the cause of this humanitarian project is applaudable are there any other reason we are being so generous from increasing a $5-million dollar fund to $90 million? Does it have to do with North Korea? If not then should we charge the country of Japan for the damages done in Pearl Harbor and should we do the same for Hiroshima? Or are these the circumstances that lie behind the sins of war? Then why pay the $90 million to Laos? After all our country been in constant, foreign and domestic, battles since the founding of our fore-fathers. Who pays for those damages? Should it be charged toward the ones who started it? What about 9/11?...Iraq?...The fight against ISIS? Who pays for that? *Note-A international civil lawsuit paid a large amount of money to the survivors of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. and 58 French servicemen. Should we start keeping a tab? boingboing.net/2016/.../watch-president-obama-visit-la.html Boing Boing
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37286520
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