My Lai - Redux?
For those of us old enough to remember the shame of our military's use of napalm against Vietnamese civilians, the Italian news report showing the results of our destruction of Fallujah late last year, returns us to a horror we thought we'd put out of our minds decades ago.
While the apparent use of incendiary white phosphorus, or "Whisky Pete" as it's known in the military, isn't chemically akin to the jellied gasoline known as napalm, its effects on the human body are just as horrific as images shown in the report disturbingly attest to.
The Pentagon immediately denied any use of white phosphorus chemical weapons against Iraqi civilians, yet the highly-sanitized coverage of the war using only embedded journalists has done little to keep the real picture of this war from emerging...albeit slowly and belatedly.
When the entire premise of war is fabricated upon lies and political intrigue, the need for stealth and secrecy at every level of operation is intensified.
Let anyone who calls himself or herself a moral person look at this news report and not ask this:
How can a nation call itself a beacon of good when evil such as this rains down on innocent people from that nation's highest levels?
posted by mauiloa @ 9:31 AM
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