It was the end of the Vietnam war. I was recently divorced and sitting by myself in the Midland Restaurant. Sitting in the table behind me was a family with a soldier wearing his uniform. He was confronted with this: "You are a baby killer!" I wasn't with him so I don't know what he did with his buddies. However, I did hang-out with Paul B. He was a Marine that was active in the Vietnam war. He told me multiple times that they took no prisoners. "We killed all of them." He also told me how effectively he could lob shells into a village. Paul didn't like the World Court. I sensed that he didn't want any institution to supersede the authority that gave him permission to do what he did. Another person told me, "It's a dirty business, but someone has to do it."
Paul with his Marine buddies were effective authorized killers. Furthermore, Paul had the personal authority to give authority to an indiviual to go somewhere to kill a specific individual in a Vietnam village. What all these people like Paul have in common is a need to avoid personal responsible for their behavior. The process of holding the people that executed the Gulf wars responsible for their behavior has begun. Here are a few links that give you more information about unfolding events.
War Crimes Trials: a cloud on the horizon
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld Not Likely To Be Prosecuted
Nuremberg Trials
1 comment:
Hmmm.
Send kids into a No-Win battle environment in VeitNam, let them experience their buddies dying, perhaps a close friend dead, and then have courage to tell that kid,
a no-nothing civilian, tell them that They Are Beasts For Returning
Fire...Actually killing people!
You tell us that War is Insanity?
Well, go ahead, vent and rant away.
Perhaps you would like to expand on
your intellectual summary. Tell us
about the Shia plan to develop their capacity to enrich U-235, and
expand their influence throughout the Middle East, then on to Europe.
They do wrap bombs on their kids,
don't you know.
Or perhaps we should all sit back and listen to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He's better than any egg-head in
telling all of us exactly what his
exquisitely laid plans entail. He is quite vocal, brutally honest and
bold. We should learn to listen to
his insane rant about "Little Satan" the Jew, and Big Satan, the USA. Your smooth Educator's Comment is welcome on our Reality Weblog. We encourage all detailed negativity.
Invite Sen Kerry to join you, he's
a great analyst, don't ya reckon?
reb
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