The Crimson? Are you sh*tting me? A college newspaper from one of THE most liberal colleges in the nation?
As for the author...no one here will be shocked to find out that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Branfman
A college newspaper?
What's your problem, moron, too many big words?
FYI Fred Branfman is also an eyewitness to war crimes, not that racist tools like you would care
"One particular fact puzzled me during my investigations of the air war. All the refugees said the worst bombing occurred from the end of 1968 until the summer of 1969. They were bombed daily, every village was leveled, thousands were murdered and maimed. But I knew from U.S. Embassy friends that there were no more than a few thousand North Vietnamese troops in Laos at the time, and that there was no military reason for the sudden and brutal increase in U.S. bombing. Why, then, had this aerial holocaust occurred?
And then, to my everlasting horror, I found out. At Senator Fulbright's hearing, he asked Deputy Chief of Mission Monteagle Stearns why the bombing of northern Laos had so intensified after Lyndon Johnson's bombing halt over North Vietnam. Stearns answered simply:
"Well, we had all those planes sitting around and couldn't just let them stay there with nothing to do." (13)"
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/db_article.php?article_id=494