Tag: my lai
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Truth Leaking Out About Khandahar Bloodbath
Is Staff Sergeant Robert Bales a scapegoat for military adventure – very similar to what took place in Vietnam reminiscent of the 1968 My Lai Massacre? The early press threw out possible contributing factors as a fourth deployment or a prior brain injury for public consumption.
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Corbett Report: Episode215 – History Repeating: My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib to Afghanistan, we have seen the all-too-familiar pattern: denials followed by excuses followed by faux apologies and offical handwringing. What is never examined is how each event fits into the bigger picture of the dehumanization of war.
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US shame still stings 40 years after my lai massacre
from monsters & critics: The soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 11th US Army Brigade, arrived in the morning. Their mission was clear. “The orders were to shoot anything that moved,” […]