New York Times Video:

I found the brief documentary on the present-day affects of Agent Orange in Vietnam to be extremely enlightening. The fact that we were spraying this chemical agent on friendly terrain in South Vietnam is even more disturbing. Regardless of the fact that many insurgents were crossing the border, I feel that we had no right to kill the vegetation and potential food sources of a country we had sworn to help protect and liberate. The greatest atrocity, would have to be the affect that Agent Orange is having on Vietnamese family's today. The chemical dioxin passes through the food chain from plants, to animals, to humans and eventually cripples or debilitates in other manners those exposed to it. Many people in rural villages receive direct exposure through the soil, which is of even greater detriment. Consideration for the future consequences of spreading poison upon a country should have been done before WE were ever to initiate a program such as this. (The saddest thing is I am sure that it was.) The New York Times video journal was an effective rhetoric for exposing American military negligence in Vietnam.