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Re:After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and... by vacri on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:18AM (#12191869)
> Laos is one of the poorest countries in the world and wasn't directly involved.

Laos-the-country wasn't, but Laos-the-geographic-area definitely was. Rightly or wrongly, the US was bombing southern Laos because that's where the North Vietnamese supply channel was. It had nothing to do with the skin colour of the Laotians, and everything to do with the lack of political and military power of Laos.

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Re:After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and... by jrochkind1 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:03AM (#12193230)
Political and military power sure seems to be correlated to skin color -- thanks colonialism!
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