Four Hours In My Lai (1 of 7)

Americans tell of USA infantry massacre and rape of allied civilian women and children in South Vietnam. US Army photos and film. NOTE NOT in hostile territory, NOT an enemy village in South Vietnam, no-one properly punished. (you get more for DUI or pot than Calley got, he was out in under four months, no one else punished at all.)

Most important was that SOME Americans knew better and tried to stop it AT THE TIME.
The black guy from Detroit, the helicopter crew , Pvt Berhart and others, goes to show who has morals and who doesn't. The dude from Detriot couldn't understand how how they didn't know morals form somewhere, and the helicopter pilot and others who likened them to Nazi's and didn't go to Vietnam to be the Nazi's

You sullied your allies with this, New Zealand and Australia are still dirty from this, it doesn't wash off. Our heroes have this stain on them even if THEY did no wrong.

Yet still in Iraq CNN shows the USA continuing with NAZI tactics, using civilians (children even) under duress to check booby traps and to knock on doors of suspected ambushes, against Geneva. Using civilian contractors with No accountability. WHEN ARE THE USA GOING TO LEARN.? Stop being the Nazi's, or at least censor your press and TV stop youtube etc. Hide what you do , the Nazi's at least knew that one, be decent enough to have shame.

Same with the BAIT for SNIPER programme, if bullets were left near a school in your town would someone other than a terrorist pick them up, would it be okay for a Army sniper to kill them as a terrorist then.? I can think of LOTS of reasons someone other than a terrorist would remove pyrotechnics, left lying around by the US army as bait.

Some people just are not thinking it's the old oxymoron "military intellegence".

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[Mike8901000]

Oliver Stone should adapt this into a film.

[armbar]

James Corbett just did a great podcast on this and the similarities with Abu Ghraib and the recent incident of Marines urinating on dead bodies. The MO of the powers that be is the same through history. Dehumanize the enemy so that your soldiers can easily perform brutal atrocities, which in turn dehumanize the soldiers.

[besthistorianever]

I'd hate to see what they'ed do to Ottawa...

[jiaxiking]

@jessieyt1 the elements would be killing, or the psychological effects of killing, and trying to stay alive, Many people around me got the idea of American solders are saints, saviors and defenders of justice and freedom. My argument is, your everyday people either ignore negative evidences or "rationalize" them to be accidental, separate events.

[jessieyt1]

Actually, what would have to be missing to leave just video footage would be the war part.

????

[jessieyt1]

@jiaxiking

What do you mean when you say "the images and video footage ... on video networks are what war will become if certain elements are missing"? What elements? Cameras? What's the point of that besides obscuring what's going on?

[jiaxiking]

@jessieyt1 there are countless examples of what WAR really is out there. The images and video footage you see on media networks are what war will become if certain elements are missing.



[jessieyt1]

@armbar

That is war. Making war is deciding to do that.

It is actually possible to train soldiers to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, though. Which is a hell of a lot better than nothing. And that is being done considerably better now. Imperfectly, but there hasn't been a deliberate, 4-hour-long slaughter of an entirely unarmed civilian population since. Not much to boast of; but much better than if it were still happening.

[jessieyt1]

@jiaxiking

Actually it's not what's expected from war. It's what war can become if certain things are not expected, like refraining from raping and murdering civilians on purpose.

[jessieyt1]

@DStrike0083

Because the 500+ women, children and old men raped, sodomized, and murdered at My Lai were no accidents.

[Hperman09]

@Dipzcricket We were involved in Afghanistan because of 9/11. Remember? 

[Dipzcricket]

america still has not learned there lesson, do not underestimate other countiries, america came out of the war due to public opinion and it being a stalemate. Yet they still get involved in afganistan