"There were more than 580,000 bombing missions on Laos from 1964 to 1973 during the Vietnam War. That's equivalent to one bombing mission every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years. Over two million tons of ordnance was dropped on the country, with up to 30 per cent failing to explode as designed."
http://www.maginternational.org/the-problems/the-uxo-problem...
More than 40 years after the war, one-third of the country is still contaminated by unexploded ordnance — an ongoing cost of war that affects the Lao people daily.
video at http://abcnews.go.com/International/americas-secret-war-laos...
also a worthwhile visit http://www.cambodialandminemuseum.org/
There may be many other violations, but I think that's a credible start.
That doesn't appear to be about Laos though?
I'd be interested to hear the author explain what "regular violations of nearby Laos and Cambodia" actually means.
The same bombing campaign hit both countries similarly. Laos seems to have been slightly worse off, but the concept applies to both countries. The information at the museum in Cambodia will broadly inform the Laos situation. Besides if there is a similar resource in Laos I'm unaware of it.
> The landmines in Cambodia were placed by different governments and factions (including the Lon Nol, Khmer Rouge, the Heng Samrin and Hun Sen regimes, as well as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea who, with international support retained the UN seat throughout much of the 1980s) that clashed during the Civil War in Cambodia in the 1970s and 1980s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873083
So it's not clear to me that has anything to do with the US presence in Vietnam.
My visit to this museum sticks with me to this day, and my desire to promote it is perhaps out of place on this specific topic.
I stand by all of my other links as being directly relevant.
One such tactic the author fails to mention was the successful effort to undermine Johnson's peace negotations by doing illegal covert dealings with the South Vietnamese through Nixon's underlings. Nixon was undermining the negotiations between the U.S. executive branch and North/South Vietnam when Nixon was still a candidate, encouraging the South to hold out until after the election.
You can read about it and much more in Christopher Hitchens' "The Trial of Henry Kissinger." Regardless of one's opinion of Hitchens, he refers to unclassified documents and many other reputable sources in his section on this.
The only reason I mention it here is because the author has attempted to flesh out an analogy with what I must assume were supposed to be the salient details of each item being compared. To do that and leave out the fact that a presidential candidate undermined the acting president's effort to end the war is quite strange.
Also, I'd be interested to hear the author explain what "regular violations of nearby Laos and Cambodia" actually means.