Cleaning Up After A Deadly Holocaust

This photo by The Guardian shows one of the many
signs warning of danger of contamination.

According to a recent news item in The Week, the U.S. is in the middle of a $183 million cleanup operation at Vietnam's Bien Hoa Airport, a site from which more than 11 million gallons of the defoliant Agent Orange was sprayed over large areas of jungle to deprive Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces of tree cover from 1962 to 1971.

Forty years later, Vietnamese men, women and children are still suffering all kinds of adverse health effects ranging from high incidences of cancer to a multitude of mental and physical disabilities in children that persist through life. A total of several million people are reported to have been affected, "including 150,000 children born with severe birth defects such as missing limbs, spinal bifida and hydrocephaly."

I so wish my fellow pro-lifers would join me in thoroughly denouncing this and other ravages of modern warfare, and not focus only on the violence of abortion. Besides the use of this kind of deadly defoliant, the U.S. used more firepower in Laos alone than it had used in all of Europe in all of World War II, to say nothing of the megatons of bombs dropped on the rest of Southeast Asia during the U.S. invasion.

All of these forms of holocaust most certainly resulted in the deaths of thousands of unborn babies as well as countless other innocent non-combatants.

May God have mercy on us all.