If a man can betray his own country then he can and will definitely betray the nation which bought him out. And when traitors talk of humanity and fair play, one wonders where all this humanity was when they sold out their own people.
The ethnic Hmong tribes in Laos had once eagerly agreed to serve the US. They fought against their own people. In fact these mountain-people were so efficient that no direct US involvement was necessary. This is in stark contrast to Vietnam where ordinary Vietnamese never thought of selling out their country en masse. Now the Hmong are lamenting their fates and neglect by both the US and the Communist Laos government. The International Herald Tribune reports of Hmong veterans wanting to be repatriated to the US. All their whining about justice and equal opportunities in Laos is only a cover-up for wanting to desert their own country for lives of luxury in the US. It is ironical that they have pinned their hopes on the arch-opportunist, the US. If the US accepts their claims then it is a tacit admission of employing spies in foreign countries.
The Laos People’s Army is well known for its ruthlessness and intolerance for capitalist ideologies. In this it is wrong. But is it wrong to rid one’s motherland of the pestilence of time-serving unpatriotic rabble? The Western media has started a concerted campaign of showing the Laos Government in a bad light. It is as if the Laos Government is wrong to wage war against these groups who have waged war against the nation. It as if the Government had once coerced these men to sell their souls to the US. This sort of journalism is part of a concerted effort to shift blame from the US and the UK for past wrongs. If we start believing that the Hmongs are more wronged against than wronging, then we will associate Communism with tyranny. This is what the rich nations of the world want. Without the balancing force of Marxism, the rich will have a freehand in endlessly exploiting the poor. The West needs poor nations to believe that their poverty is of their own making. The US wants to show the Communist Laos government in a bad light.
People who turn against the State for selfish needs should be punished. This will deter future traitors. Laos will breathe easy when the Hmong- problem is settled. Otherwise the fear of future betrayals remains. Let the CIA who once paid these base mercenaries, come to their help.
Source: IHT
