"I could not understand how an entire nation like mine, an enlightened nation by all accounts, is able to train itself to live as a conqueror without making its own life wretched." David Grossman
For the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve kept an increasingly fat folder labelled “Atrocities.” It contained reports of abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan so egregious that even the military couldn’t ignore them. I retitled it “A Few Bad Apples” when it became clear that those who got caught had to be portrayed as anomalies so as to avoid the central question of what the hell they’re doing there in the first place.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Haditha, My Lai, and off the hook
Good historical review, putting the minimal punishment for Sgt. Frank Wuterich and other marines who massacred 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005 in context of other atrocities.
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