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On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 19:00:40 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

> The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:59:19 +0100, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
>>Lodder) wrote:
>>
>>>More than just species, an ecosystem.
>>>Massive use by the USA of 'Agent Orange' and other defoliants in
>>>Vietnam is another good candidate for an attempt at ecocide,
>>
>>The objective was to remove cover for guerillas. In WW1 they used
>>artillery over most of Belgium and much of Northern France to "achieve"
>>much the same result (that area was in 1918 described as 'moonscape')
> 
> The original intention for napalm was similar, before they started using
> it as an anti-personnel thing.  Problem is that if you want to expose
> the HCM trail, you first need to know where it is... and secondly you
> need to know where they moved it to after you exposed it.  It turned
> into a giant game of whack-a-mole and the jungle and the people in it
> were the losers.
> --scott

A casual check online reveals no photos of before-and-after evidence
of the use of defoliants; just a few stock images of planes flying
over trees dispersing some foggy stuff.