This particular history is important, particularly for the fact that it rarely gets an airing compared to the endless cycle of WWII military strategy television documentaries. It is also important because it provides a rare opportunity to perceive 'ourselves' who were implicated in this atrocity, albeit indirectly, in a less familiar way. Agent Orange has implications for other disastrous and more recent military operations, which is perhaps what Pilger is suggesting. And the problem continues to be that we rarely acknowledge the suffering on the 'other side'. But history has a way of getting out sooner or later, despite the media mind managers deciding whether it is 'too political'.