reminder that the people who did this are still alive, have opinions and vote.
And only one was tried. His sentence was changed from life in prison to 3 years house arrest by Nixon. How the fuck is that possible? I would understand they would try to sweep this under the table, but it was a well known incident, such a thing that they should lock up everyone involved and throw away the keys just to show No, we do not do such things, THEY DO.
Not only that, but:
Initially, three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue hiding civilians were shunned, and even denounced as traitors by several U.S. congressmen, including Mendel Rivers (D–SC), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
What’s in Wikipedia doesn’t match my memory; what I thought had happened was that Thompson did more than “try to halt.” He landed his helicopter between US troops and a group of obviously harmless villagers and told his men to shoot the Americans if they tried to continue murdering the villagers.
He and the other soldiers who stopped the massacre and reported what had happened were viewed by most Americans as traitors at the time, and for quite a while after.
Gentle reminder that Henry Kissinger is still dead
That brings me no happiness.
He managed to live to 100. Where there’s millions he killed who did not even make it past puberty.
Famed evangelist Billy Graham wrote a stirring defense of Calley, the officer in charge of the massacre.
We have all had our Mylais in one way or another
No Billy, we have not.
The sickness of the evangelical church is not a recent development.
Americans: Are we the baddies?
History: When have you not been?
When America realized its military does stuff that they thought only other countries did. Between this and the pentagon papers, Vietnam was when Americans stopped trusting their government.
Now apply* that logic to the idf.
Corrected.
Now apply* that logic to the idf.
I guess every thread has to be about Israel.
Apply the logic of US public loss of trust in the government to Israel’s armed forces?These are two different things, Israeli support for Netanyahu’s government is at an all time low:
Such sentiments are backed up by numbers: New polling data shows that Israelis’ trust in government is at a 20-year low of 18%. Only 20.5% of Jewish Israelis and 7.5% of Arab Israelis polled by the Israel Democracy Institute in the aftermath of Hamas’s attack said they had trust in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/public-trust-in-government-scrapes-bottom-amid-criticism-for-inadequate-war-response/But trust in the IDF remains quite high:
Leftist and centrist Israelis overwhelmingly trust the heads of the IDF, at 80% and 74% respectively.
Rightists, on the other hand, are far less likely to trust the heads of the IDF at only 41%, they are also more likely to believe that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be trusted with the war at 10%. 29% trusted both the same amount.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-771429
If these people had been roasted in napalm dropped by an officer going by at 900kmh no American would care or remember.
Codifying war crimes implies that honorable warfare exists.
Dont let the old timers at r/TheWayWeWere see this
As true as that is, one of the stories of that day is that there was a soldier that day extorting a blowjob from a terrified mother by holding a gun on her baby. The witness then went and got the commanding officer, Lt. Calley who came immediately and scolded the soldier for not following orders, which were to round up all these civilians and take them to a ditch for summary execution.
My source for said story is either Four Hours in My Lai or the American Experience Documentary I can’t remember which but they’re both worth a watch although obviously there’s a duplication of material.
This is my point. You’re trying to measure the difference between rape and murder as though it is worse to kill a 300 pound man than two 145 pound men.
Couldn’t we say the rapist is more kind than the murderer? All speculation is madness.
