An Excerpt from My Novella Concerning Kissinger and Nixon's Policy in Laos
Henry Kissinger passed away today, and his complicated legacy is the topic of many think pieces.
Henry Kissinger lived to be 100. That’s a lot longer than many Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians lived when they were being bombed during his terms as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. Much of the coverage of his passing has referred to him as a “war criminal” because of his involvement in promoting the wars in Southeast Asia and other militaristic foreign policy endeavors.
True enough, he could be considered a war criminals just as Lyndon Johnson’s NSA Walt Rostow was. Too often, the Vietnam War and the accompanying bombing campaigns in Cambodia and Laos were treated by American historians as “tragedies without villains.”
Now, this is the point you might be saying, Wait, what does this have to do with femdom or erotica? (Or you might have said that after the first word of this newsletter.)
Okay, we get to the point. The reason I’m writing isn’t just to make you get hot and hard and ready to cum (or frustrated cuz you’re still locked up). It’s also to share some truths about life and death and heaven and hell.
I’m living in Thailand, and I’ve interwoven Thai culture and history into my novellas. All three of my Thailand-based stories are available in the bundle The Thai Mistresses: Femdom Stories of Men Being Dominated by Bar Girls, Mistresses, and Thai Ghosts.
Thailand was not a victim of American bombing campaigns. It was, in fact, the site of many airbases from which American bombing campaigns were launched. With that in mind, I present an excerpt from my novella Kinky Road Trip on the Haunted Highway: A Femdom Travelogue Through Northern Thailand, which in part concerns the history of the U.S. bombing campaign in Laos.
"As the seasons change, people's essences change. In October in Northern Thailand and Isan (that's the Northeast), the temperature drops, the flowers begin to close, and things begin to die. October is a most tragic month. Many times, there have been deaths, accidents, murders, and massacres."
"So is October a cursed month?"
"You can say that. There were many terrible things that happened in October. Many floods and typhoons hit in October. Our kings have died in October throughout history. King Sanphet VII. Rama IV. Then his successor, Rama V, also died in October. So did Rama IX.
"There were attacks on the student protesters in the 1970s. The military dictatorship used tanks to kill the demonstrators who were fighting for democracy one October. I think it was 1974. The same thing happened in 1976. I think it was October 6, too.
"Then there were the shootings. A drunk guy shot the owners of the White House restaurant in Saraburi in October 2009. Just about a week ago, the 14-year-old boy shot randomly at the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok.
"The worst massacre of all occurred on October 6, 2022. A crazed, drug addict who used to be a police officer drove his pickup truck to the local nursery and shot and stabbed like thirty children to death. He drove back to his village and continued the massacre. It happened in Nong Bua Lamphu. That's on our route to Nong Khai."
"Shit," I said. "I didn't realize this kind of thing happened much in Thailand. It seems like an American thing."
"There's always been illegal guns in Thailand. There's always been drug gangs and gambling dens. But it seems like there's been more and more random massacres. And then the hotel...”
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DAY 3
7 am
We're headed to Nong Khai and Vientiane. It's the final stretch. But first, we have to get through the city the massacre took place.
7:30 am
We passed through Nong Bua Lamphu on the main highway. The city was nondescript. It wasn't the fearsome place I'd thought it would be. Maybe the evil is just in the person. Or maybe the ghosts don't come out in daytime.
We passed through Udon Thani and turned north on National Highway 2, aka Mittraphap Road (Friendship Road), the highway built by the United States in 1955 to supply the military bases it used to launch its many bombing campaigns. The base in Udon Thani, the Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, was where most of the B-52s loaded with bombs setting out for Laos launched from. The U.S. bombed somewhere Laos once every eight minutes. Dropped more bombs on that single small country than they did everywhere in the first two World Wars combined.
"They told me that in Samneua province, the entire population lives underground because of intense U.S. bombing."
- John Everingham, Australian journalist who photographed the villages decimated by bombing campaigns (the last foreign journalist left in Laos after the Communists won the civil war, who had to leave Laos but swam across the Mekong River four times to finally reunite with his Laotian wife and take her to Thailand)
Maybe Nong Bua Lamphu wasn't the most haunted city after all. Nor the site of the biggest atrocity. Maybe the evil is in the institution.
9:20 am
We arrived at border checkpoint between Nong Khai and Vientiane. The border officer asks me a couple of questions in Thai. Am I studying Thai? Where are you living? Things like that. It's not difficult.
We got back into the car. We were listening to Anti-Flag's song "Brandenburg Gate."
♬ I lost my baby to a foreign war
She was cut down in the
Gunfire of the western world ♪
We drove over the 1st Thai - Lao Friendship Bridge that passes over the Mekong River. What does "Friendship" mean here?, I wondered.
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