Forty years later, taxpayers still are on the hook for the
U.S. role in the Vietnam war, with Congress doling out more than $400 million
in the last two and a half decades, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
And it may be more decades yet before the funding stops,
according to the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan service for
members of Congress.
CRS says the problem is all the unexploded ordnance that
remains in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
“Over the past 25
years the United States has provided a total of over $400 million in assistance
for UXO clearance and related activities in those three countries through the
Department of Defense, Department of State, and United States Agency for
International Development, as well as funding for treatment of victims through
USAID and the Leahy War Victims fund,” the service reported this week.
“Many observers believe it may still take decades to clear
the affected areas.”
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