You thought nothing could surprise you about the Vietnam War? A shocking, extraordinary new investigation by journalist Nick Turse will have you thinking again.
As I write in the new edition of BookForum, Turse makes an air tight -- and profoundly upsetting -- case that "My Lai was not a mistake or an aberration or even an exaggerated case of aggravated assault.
"It was born of a deliberate body-count strategy that came down from on high and was pursued energetically by colonels down to sergeants.
"It was a strategy that logically led to an approved practice on the ground that’s summed up in the book’s title: Kill anything that moves.”
"It was born of a deliberate body-count strategy that came down from on high and was pursued energetically by colonels down to sergeants.
"It was a strategy that logically led to an approved practice on the ground that’s summed up in the book’s title: Kill anything that moves.”
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Nothing surprises me anymore. It also reminds me of certain reports coming out of Afghanistan relating to American Special Ops that our Pentagon have kept independent of NATO command
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narang_night_raid
I picked this up a couple weeks ago. I'm finding very difficult to read. A couple of pages and I'm just sick.
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