Great discussion.

Excellent lecture 😊

After my helicopter crashed, I was falsely accused of sabotaging it by my sergeant who had switched places with me. He had survived the crash and the pilots plus a new guy door gunner died or would die later in the hospital. So I was put in charge of the battalion garbage route. I drove a 5-ton truck with a trailer and I didn't have to handle the trash drums but I did and I cleaned up the trash collection points and improved them. I was given young Vietnamese teenage boys to help me. We ate lunch outside my company's mess hall. One day, I was assigned a really young and small boy. I just let hang him around with the rest of us. I worried that he was an orphan. At lunch, I finished eating so I decided clean my M-16 rifle. While I first began cleaning the rifle, the kid picked it up and started to disassemble the parts to clean them. I let him take over cleaning and putting the M-16 back together. I inspected it and he had done a perfect job. I was amazed then I wondered how he had learned to clean an Army assault rifle. He was just a little boy. Where had he got his hands on a M-16!! I realized the kids in Vietnam were not innocent farm boys.

Are there really always alternatives to war? I'm as sickened by wanton brutality as Hersh, but with all due respect, people have had to confront the moral conundrum of war throughout human history, and the moral justification for it is usually the same in every instance: Sometimes, a 'peaceful' situation can be more evil than the terrible circumstances of war. Can moral evil always be responded to peacefully? Very few people can honestly answer yes to that question. What about the helicopter pilot who trained his guns on his fellow Americans at My Lai, ordering the gunner to shoot them down if they tried to kill the villagers he'd decided to save? Was he wrong to do that? The whole tragedy of war, for me, is right there in that noble action which the pilot took. He used his weapons for good. The American Company there had lost its moral compass. That doesn't condemn war, it condemns those soldiers who'd descended into pure immoral savagery. Eugene McCarthy was a pacifist through and through, and in that respect was at odds with the Catholic Church which has never been absolutely pacifist. It recognises the principle of just war. The Vietnamese communists certainly believed that justice was on their side, and considered life under market economy to be an evil peace. If Hersh wanted to address that question he should have first addressed the entire context in which world communism had already killed many tens of millions of people and held half of Europe hostage.

What's Hersh drinking ? 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷

The name of the village is MY LAI!

'McNamara's Morons'? As they were charmingly named.

I'm not making this up

My rack?

The Americans always love to play the role of victims. They love critics and hate self-critics. Only others peoples always inflicted and inflict horrible things to them - but they always remain on the side of the angels. They have astonishingly a long and good memory about the crimes indicted to them. But they forget their own ones against their own Indians, Jews, Negroes and Hispanics or the Germans, Vietnamese, Japanese, Koreans, Muslims... They remember well the incidents Lusitania, Pearl Harbour, 9.11 ....but they forget easily their own My Lai, Haditha, Abu Ghraib, Phoenix program, Christmas bombing, Dresden bombing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki ... Or simply they just granted themselves their most generous pardons and believe to remain Jesus´soldiers. May their God bless America as they always sing -again and again...

Do you jobe ❤📕✒⚖

AMERICAL DIVISION -- not American.

This guys opinions should not be a part of the report. Alot of false, unneeded information

Is Hersh drunk. Why the circumlocution - the tedious attemptes at humour - the beating around the bush - asking the audience of kids to imagine what he actually did.. Why? God knows.

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