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Review Of Hitchens 'Essay The Vietnam Syndrome'

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A country changed forever, with a beginning but possibly no foreseen end. Agent Orange worked its way into the very roots of nature and mankind. “ ...war not just on vegetation but also on the roots and essences of life itself,” as stated by Hitchens in his essay, “The Vietnam Syndrome.” Honestly, I don’t believe that those who decided to spread this chemical ever knew what the immense cost to human life would be, or just how long its effects would last. Generation after generation have felt and seen it’s maliciousness and destruction. Beyond doubt, a never-ending cycle of horror and hopelessness, forced upon the most blameless of victims. These innocent victims were, and still are, children, born unbearably disfigured with missing limbs,

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