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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (143000)8/11/2004 10:59:05 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Carl,
This brings the subcommittee's estimates of total civilian casualties from 1965 through 1970 to 1.1 million, including from 325,000 to 335,000 killed.

That number isn't based on the 10 years in your text. And the war didn't end in 1970, plenty of people were killed after 1970.

When kids are in combat in a war that is idiotic and they can be fired on by anyone at any time and they can't really tell the difference between friend and for or between combatant and non-combatant, what the heck would anyone expect them to do? They will fire first and ask questions later. And no one should blame them for this. Blame the people who sent them there and who put them in that situation.

By the way, civilians deaths in North Vietnam were also about 300,000. I suppose most of them would have been accounted for by US air power, but that sort of thing isn't called "attrocity".

That is only because our moral consciousness has managed to never catch up with our technology which permits us to kill at a distance, never seeing the "whites of their eyes" or the "red of their blood."

See my next post. Should sound familiar. There are a lot of differences between Vietnam and Iraq, but there are similarities too. As you well know.
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