[Cohaagen]

6000 tonnes dumped over 30 years works out at about half a tonne a day average. Not a great deal, except when taken cumulatively.

Housing around the loch is sparse. One side has a few houses, the other has a small housing estate - which housed navy personnel and their families.

Doesn't really seem much point going on, I agree, since you are entirely incapable of grasping the very simple fact that dumping toxic waste, any kind of waste, in a host country is generally considered a Bad Thing and something of an insult. First you deny that the USN bears any responsibility then, incredibly, you try and shift the blame onto the local residents, though you have yet to provide any evidence of complicity or even foreknowledge.

But it's not just those dang sneaky natives at the Holy Loch, there's the irreperable damage to archaeological sites in Iraq (the ruins of Babylon in particular), dumping of toxic chemicals in Germany causing contamination of water tables, the South Korean bases so filthy even the Korean government doesn't want them back (dumping formaldehyde into rivers? Medals all round...), the truly appalling state of bases in the Phillipines and Panama, etc, etc. The US military sure does have to deal with some sneaky folks around the world who don't keep an eagle eye on their local American bases.

Heck, maybe if the Vietnamese had been a bit more on the ball they wouldn't have so many congenital deformities from all that Agent Orange?

My original point was about how US governments tend to pick and choose which aspects of international agreements suit them and ignore the rest, likewise the UN, and remain totally unaccountable with regards to their transgressions. All you've done is reinforce this view of Americans as arrogant, hypersensitive flag-suckers.