You youngsters may not remember the My Lai incident (pronounced Me Lie), where hundreds of innocent people -- primarily women, children, and old folks -- in the Vietnamese village of My Lai were slaughtered by U.S. G.I.s. Troops coming back from 'Nam frequently told similar stories but were poo-pooed and/or branded as liars and traitors.
Now the truth is coming out. After 40 years the files are no longer secret, and the results of a Pentagon task force in the early 1970s has been released. It documents many atrocities by U.S. forces in Vietnam and shows that such atrocities were much more extensive than was previously known. They "detail 320 alleged incidents that were substantiated by Army investigators."
(LA Times) Why is this important now? Look at the atrocities being committed in Iraq. It emphasizes that the problem is within the
military culture and the solution, therefore, lies only within the military culture. Pretty scary thought, huh? Indiscriminate killing is supposed to be brought under control by the people who have been trained as killers.