My Lai -- Not an Aberration (was Re: antisocialism)

[Michael Perelman]

I am just now reading Christian Parenti's new book (with a nice blurb from
Doug).  He says that the U.S. attributed the massacre to the dope that the
soldiers were smoking.  It does became a partial pretext for the war on drugs.

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> You are ignorant of the history of modern warfare.  There is nothing
> special about My Lai.


> --

Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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