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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (143893)8/24/2004 11:19:50 AM
From: cnyndwllr   of 281500
 
Of course there were likely to be atrocities that were not caught, as there are always more crimes than are discovered, but there is no basis for speculating as to the extent.

It's not correct to say that "there is no basis for speculating as the extent." In the south of Vietnam we, by any conservative estimate, killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Remembering that we weren't engaged in a conventional war against a the nation of South Vietnam, and that we didn't wage war against its cities except for Tet of 68 on a limited basis, that's a huge number of "incidental casualties." Most of the casualties were in rural areas with villagers being killed. Even ignoring the many "unconfirmed" reports of how things were done in Vietnam, how do YOU think that happened if we weren't liberally targeting such villages and villagers?

Hint, the possible friend of my enemy is my enemy. Second hint, preemptive attacks. Third hint, fear and anger destroy morality and judgement. Fourth hint, nits make lice thinking doesn't just apply to American Indian babies and isn't just a thing of our barbarian past.

But maybe you have some logical alternative explanation for how this could occur that goes beyond the safety of saying "we shouldn't speculate?"
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