[Sherman Logan]

Historically, this is just the way soldiers treat people.

The comparatively restrained behavior of Western and Western-influenced armies over the last few centuries is very much the exception, not the rule.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Leftist intellectual will look at a massacre like this, with one black tribe killing another black tribe and say: "This is the result of evil white colonialism."

The Leftist intellectual will look at the restrained use of violence by the US armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and say: "Western imperialism oppresses and kills innocent people."