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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1043)12/20/1996 12:59:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly   of 108807
 
Well, that's a bit much, Maurice. Calley's crime hardly compares with Nazism, and moreover the US Army prosecuted him. Those soldiers weren't begging the U.S. government to let them go to Viet Nam. They were largely reluctant defenders of the Republic of South Viet Nam, and they didn't set America's foreign policy. In Viet Nam GIs were often killed and maimed by Viet Cong who were dressed as civilians and operated out of the villages. We were asking the infantry to be target practice in a guerilla war. It's not surprising that they suspected and feared villagers who lived in the hot zones, and it's probably not the only time that troops took out their fear and frustrations on civilians. It would be nice, though, if the critics were equally condemnatory of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, who murdered villagers for years in order to force their subservience, and who hid combatants among the innocent, and who killed thousands of defenseless people in "re-education camps" after their conquest of South Viet Nam.
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