>>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>>"They actually went into the houses and killed women and children,"
>>Mr. Murtha said. "It's a very serious incident unfortunately and it
>>shows the tremendous pressure these guys are under every day when
>>they're out in combat and the stress and the consequences."
>
>Medicalization of war, innit? When the Nazis did this stuff, we
>called it "reprisals." When our New Age storm troopers do it, we
>call it "stress." For Nazis, war crime trials; for the US military,
>chill pills.
One of the reasons Occupation: Dreamland is such an interesting movie is that you watch people you kind of like do horrible things - not because they're horrible people but because they've been put in a horrible situation by their horrible leaders, to whom they've sworn allegiance.
Doug