Aug 01 2008

Leftovers

I’ve never watched Tony Bourdain’s show on the Travel Channel titled No Reservations, but today, he has become one of my heroes.

I’ve just watched a clip of a show he did in Laos that moved me more than anything has in a very long time. It chronicles the legacy of US imperialism and its impact on one small country that bore no challenge to us other than a happenstance of location. And it also chronicles one man’s life that was forever changed because of this and his question to all of us …”Are you afraid of seeing the reality?”

(h/t to Kai at Zuky)

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  1. and no words. Just bearing witness.

  2. … until we have positive proof of what we are doing today all around the world?

    We dropped more bombs on this relatively tiny neutral country than on Germany and Japan in all of WWII, the equivalent of a bombing run every 9 minutes, 24 hours a day, for ten years.

    Am I afraid of seeing the reality?  Sure.

    But I’m more afraid of turning away.

    Thanks for this, NL.

  3. …so i can’t see the embedded file, but my folks sponsored some Laotian refugees in the 80s.  They were and are amazing people, who had lived through some really unspeakable shit.

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