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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (141780)7/28/2004 7:30:53 PM
From: Suma  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I worked with Veterans returning from Korea and heard the same stories of what we would call atrocities. They did not view them as such. It was more or less humiliating an enemy and getting them before they got us. The humiliation meant raping the women, and throwing them down wells, cutting off the beards of the old men ( it was a distinguishing thing to have a long beard I guess ) and killing anyone who got in their way.

It was apparent to me then as it is now that when men are in war they change and that as human beings when we see someone we love.. like killed...that we can become savage in our revenge.

Do we not all sit sometimes and try to place ourselves in situations as to what would we do... were the shoe on the other foot. Do we really know ourselves and how we would react under the stress of combat.

So indirectly, cyndwllr, we have seem the same things.
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