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Originally Posted by Katczinsky  You're absolutely right that this happens in every war, and the stuff that was shown in that video is nothing compared to what goes down. But the fact that the Bush administration is oblivious to this and stuck in their idealistic fantasy of the "armies of compassion" (to quote Bush) spreading democracy pixie dust I think is a testament to the true guilty party. |
Indeed, the problem should be addressed.
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Originally Posted by Katczinsky And the examples used are also pretty poor in the making of your point. Many of those countries (including our own) in those examples exercised atrocities in an organized fashion that goes straight up the chain of command. |
Then you didn't understand my point. I was saying that America isn't the perfect 'always-fight-for-freedom' nation that everyone makes it out to be. We have just as many vices as everyone else.
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Originally Posted by highway80west Vietnam was a problem. I can't recall if there ever was any more psychological problems the soldiers suffered during WWII compared to the Vietnam and Iraq wars. |
The incidence of 'battle fatigue' in WWII was hundreds of times higher than Vietnam, proportionally, not just straight up numbers. Modern soldiers talk about their fights more than past generations, and some of the Vietnam crazies were mental hospital patients who were let go when their hospitals were closed down.