In both images, a local hand is doing the pointing. But iPINIONS contends that US policy loaded the moment.
In Vietnam, Washington intervened where it had no business intervening, and helped spread the very communism it claimed to contain. In Congo and Uganda, Washington gutted USAID, leaving local health workers to police Ebola with broken promises instead of clinics.
Different crises. Same imperial habit: America creates the mess, then leaves locals to clean it up.
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