<<< The free fire zone designation by John Kerry's superiors did not include orders giving John Kerry the right to kill non-combatants indiscriminantly. Nor did the designation authorize John Kerry to personally torch private homes.
Those acts, admitted to by Kerry, are atrocities of war.>>>
I can't speak for Kerry, but I think that is what he has admitted to doing.
Again, I can't speak for Kerry, but I would think that in a free fire zone non-combatants are going to be killed. That is just mathematical probabilities.
<<<Have you read the Geneva Convention? >>>
When it comes to war, my moral compass is useless to me, but as I see it, the Geneva Convention only applies to the losing side.
We lost 50,000 dead and many more seriously injured. The Vietnamese lost 3 million dead and many injured.
To this day, I don't know what it was all about. Who won? Who lost? Who is it to blame? Who should be punished? Why did we send young men to die?
If John Kerry is to be punished for his actions, then a lot of others deserve to be punished.
As for me, I don't like the idea of punishing (especially in this case) young Americans who went to war in Vietnam. I don't think they should be punished for whatever they did. I don't think there was ever an American youth who said he wanted to grow up and go to Vietnam to commit war crimes.
Again, I can't speak for John Kerry, but I think he came back from the war and voluntarily testified that he committed acts that were against the the Geneva Convention codes and that he didn't think he was the only one - he had heard stories far worse. |
