From Lynn, on Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:06:39 GMT (in response to: What?)
What he's saying is that the massacre at My Lai was justifiable. He's saying that My Lai was basically a trading post for the enemy. He's saying soldiers were being sniped out from the village and when questioned the people maintained that they were not harboring VC's. For this reason, he's saying that it was justifiable. And, technically it was. If you look at it the way he's looking at it. Is there murder in war, when you're dealing with the enemy at any magnitude? Don't hypervenilate, I'm just asking a question. You would've had to been their to call it. You can only judge the heart of a man and 1LT Calley's heart can only be read by God. Believe in reaping and sowing, because more than we like to admit it's a natural rule of God. Everyone will eventually reap what they sow. If those villagers purposely set out to set out to harm American soldiers, then they reaped what they sowed. And if 1LT Calley allowed hate to drive him and killed those people in cold blood, then he will reap what he sowed. The problem with people is that they have the wrong idea about war. Read the old testament. Read how God instructed the armies of Israel to deal with the enemy. The problem with Americans is that we feel anyone who isn't white and speak in a different language is meek. That's what you believe when your dealing with an hegemonic society. They thought that about the Somalians and we see what they did. The dragged those two soldier's bodies through the streets in a parade. My point is that the common villager, could not have been as innocent as we believe them to be because of the US, European American superiority complex. The little meek, Asian that they've constructed can do some damaging things, right down to the children. And I'm not speaking against Asians, I'm speaking to the mindframe of those who see the people killed at My Lai and assume that these people where innocent because they were common villagers and "docile" human beings. Wake up dominant group in America, you're not the only treacherous bunch in the world. Sheeps in wolf clothings can come in all sorts of shades, dialects and cultural background. It's human. It's sin. It's the reason that God had to make himself a body and die on the cross for us.
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